Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 18
He got dar atter 'w'ile, en soon's Miss Meadows en de gals seed 'im, dey up'n giggle, en make a great 'miration kaze Brer Rabbit got on slippers.
Who acts: dere, gals, great miration kaze · What happens: get, make · To what, where: dar atter, en, slippers
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 (dere, gals, great miration kaze), 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 | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dar | dar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 atter | amod |
| 4 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 w'ile | punct |
| 6 | w'ile | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 atter | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 en | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 atter | conj |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 en | advmod |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 soon | case |
| 11 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Meadows | compound |
| 12 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 soon | advcl |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Meadows | conj |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 en | flat:foreign |
| 15 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 make | nsubj |
| 16 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gals | appos |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 im | punct |
| 18 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seed | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dey | punct |
| 20 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seed | conj |
| 21 | up'n | up'n | CCONJ | _ | 22 giggle | cc |
| 22 | giggle | giggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seed | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 en | punct |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seed | conj |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 en | acl:relcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 kaze | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 kaze | amod |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 kaze | punct |
| 29 | miration | miration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 kaze | compound |
| 30 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 got | nsubj |
| 31 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 kaze | appos |
| 32 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Brer | flat |
| 33 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 make | ccomp |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 slippers | case |
| 35 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 got | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | dere | dar atter and w'ile and en | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer atter=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | present | gals | en not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | past | a great miration kaze | slippers | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on slipper=Source |
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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