Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 11
"'Make a bow ter de Buzzard en den ter de Crow, Takes a limber-toe gemmun fer ter jump Jim Crow,'
Who acts: you, fer ter · What happens: make, take, jump · To what, where: bow ter, Jim Crow · 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 (you, fer ter), 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 | _ | 3 Make | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Make | punct |
| 3 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ter | det |
| 5 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ter | compound |
| 6 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Make | obj |
| 7 | de | de | ADP | _ | 11 ter | case |
| 8 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ter | nsubj |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ter | compound |
| 10 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ter | compound |
| 11 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ter | nmod |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 Crow | compound |
| 13 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ter | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Takes | punct |
| 15 | Takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Make | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ter | det |
| 17 | limber | limber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 toe | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 limber | punct |
| 19 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gemmun | compound |
| 20 | gemmun | gemmun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fer | compound |
| 21 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ter | compound |
| 22 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 jump | nsubj |
| 23 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Takes | ccomp |
| 24 | Jim | Jim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Crow | compound |
| 25 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 jump | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Make | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a bow ter | de en den ter and de Crow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ter=Product | |||
| 2 | take in a quote | present | you not said here | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | jump in a quote | infinitive | a fer ter | Jim Crow | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Agent |
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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