Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 17
He wuz dere, but he shuffle up kinder late, kaze w'en Miss Meadows en de balance on um done gone down ter de place, Brer Rabbit, he crope 'roun' ter de ash-hopper, en fill Brer Coon's slippers full er ashes, en den he tuck'n put um on en march off.
Who acts: Rabbit, kaze, wuz dere, de · What happens: dere, shuffle up, en, do, go down, crope · To what, where: wuz dere, balance, slippers, um, en march
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 (Rabbit, kaze, wuz dere, de), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dere | nsubj |
| 2 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dere | compound |
| 3 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fill | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shuffle | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 shuffle | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shuffle | nsubj |
| 7 | shuffle | shuffle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 dere | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 shuffle | compound:prt |
| 9 | kinder | kind | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 late | advmod |
| 10 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shuffle | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 en | punct |
| 12 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 en | nsubj |
| 13 | w'en | w'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 kaze | flat |
| 14 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 en | compound |
| 15 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 en | compound |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shuffle | parataxis |
| 17 | de | de | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 balance | nmod:poss |
| 18 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ter | compound |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 um | case |
| 20 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 balance | nmod |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 balance | acl |
| 22 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 ter | amod |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 gone | compound:prt |
| 24 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 place | compound |
| 25 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 place | compound |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 en | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Rabbit | punct |
| 28 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Rabbit | compound |
| 29 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 place | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 crope | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 crope | nsubj |
| 32 | crope | crope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dere | conj |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 roun | punct |
| 34 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 crope | conj |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 roun | punct |
| 36 | ter | ter | X | Foreign=Yes | 34 roun | conj |
| 37 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 36 ter | flat:foreign |
| 38 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hopper | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 ash | punct |
| 40 | hopper | hopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ter | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 en | punct |
| 42 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 roun | conj |
| 43 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 44 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 slippers | nmod:poss |
| 45 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Brer | flat |
| 46 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 Brer | case |
| 47 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 fill | obj |
| 48 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 ashes | amod |
| 49 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 ashes | compound |
| 50 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 slippers | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 den | punct |
| 52 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 den | compound |
| 53 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 slippers | conj |
| 54 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 put | nsubj |
| 55 | tuck'n | tuck'n | CCONJ | _ | 56 put | cc |
| 56 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 fill | advcl |
| 57 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 put | obj |
| 58 | on | on | ADP | _ | 60 march | case |
| 59 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 march | compound |
| 60 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 put | obl |
| 61 | off | off | ADP | _ | 56 put | compound:prt |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 fill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dere | Rabbit | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | shuffle up | infinitive | Rabbit | wuz dere and crope and roun and en not said here | late property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dere=Patient | |||
| 3 | en | kaze | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | do | participle | de's balance on um not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go down | participle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 6 | crope | Rabbit | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | fill | present | wuz dere and crope and roun and en | Brer's slippers and full er ashes and en den | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent slipper=Patient | ||||
| 8 | put off | infinitive | Rabbit | um | en march | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme on march=Destination | |||
| 9 | balance | de | um | nom balance «state intransitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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