Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 1
"IN dem times," said Uncle Remus, gazing admiringly at himself in a fragment of looking-glass, "Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Coon, en dem yuther creeturs go co'tin' en sparklin' 'roun' de naberhood mo' samer dan folks. '
Who acts: Uncle Remus, Brer · What happens: say, gaze, look, go · To what, where: fragment, en sparklin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus, Brer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 4 times | case |
| 3 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 times | compound |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 times | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 times | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Remus | compound |
| 9 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gazing | punct |
| 11 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 12 | admiringly | admiringly | ADV | _ | 11 gazing | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 gazing | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fragment | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fragment | det |
| 17 | fragment | fragment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gazing | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 glass | case |
| 19 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 glass | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 glass | punct |
| 21 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fragment | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Brer | punct |
| 24 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 go | nsubj |
| 25 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Brer | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 en | punct |
| 27 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Brer | appos |
| 28 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Fox | compound |
| 29 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 en | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 en | punct |
| 31 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Brer | conj |
| 32 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 en | appos |
| 33 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Brer | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 dem | punct |
| 35 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 dem | compound |
| 36 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Brer | conj |
| 37 | yuther | yuther | ADV | _ | 39 go | advmod |
| 38 | creeturs | creetur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 go | nsubj |
| 39 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 40 | co'tin | co'tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sparklin | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 40 co'tin | case |
| 42 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sparklin | compound |
| 43 | sparklin | sparklin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 go | obj |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 roun | punct |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 roun | punct |
| 46 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sparklin | appos |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 roun | punct |
| 48 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 50 mo | compound |
| 49 | naberhood | naberhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 mo | compound |
| 50 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 roun | conj |
| 51 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 mo | punct |
| 52 | samer | sam | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 54 folks | amod |
| 53 | dan | dan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 folks | compound |
| 54 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 roun | conj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 56 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Uncle Remus | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | Uncle Remus not said here | a fragment of looking glass | at Remus; admiringly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present | Brer and en and en dem | co'tin's en sparklin | yuther property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sparklin=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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