Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 16
"You kin put yo' 'pennunce in ole Brer Rabbit," the old man replied, with a chuckle. "
Who acts: You · What happens: put, reply · To what, where: pennunce, old man · 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), 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 | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | kin | kin | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pennunce | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 yo | punct |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 yo | case |
| 8 | pennunce | pennunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Rabbit | case |
| 10 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Rabbit | amod |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Rabbit | compound |
| 12 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Rabbit | appos |
| 18 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 man | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 chuckle | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 chuckle | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 chuckle | det |
| 22 | chuckle | chuckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 replied | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | present | You | yo's pennunce | in ole Brer Rabbit; kin property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pennunce=Theme in rabbit=Destination | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | the old man not said here | with a chuckle | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with chuckle=Eventuality |
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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