Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 21
But, never mine dat, old Brer Rabbit, he wuz dar, en he so brash dat leetle mo' en he'd er grab up de sludge-hammer en er open up de racket 'fo' ennybody gun de word; but Brer Fox, he shove Brer Rabbit out'n de way en pick up de sludge hisse'f.
Who acts: Rabbit, dat, Brer · What happens: dar, en, grab up, open up, shove, pick up · To what, where: brash, er, out'n way en, de sludge hisse'f
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, dat, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 brash | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dat | punct |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 dat | advmod |
| 4 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dat | compound |
| 5 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brash | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rabbit | punct |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Rabbit | amod |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rabbit | compound |
| 9 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dat | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dar | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dar | nsubj |
| 12 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dar | compound |
| 13 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Rabbit | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 en | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dar | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brash | nsubj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 brash | advmod |
| 18 | brash | brash | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 grab | obl |
| 19 | dat | dat | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 en | nsubj |
| 20 | leetle | leetle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 en | amod |
| 21 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 en | compound |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 en | punct |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brash | parataxis |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 'd | nsubj |
| 25 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 en | acl:relcl |
| 26 | er | er | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 'd | xcomp |
| 27 | grab | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 grab | compound:prt |
| 29 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 en | amod |
| 30 | sludge | sludge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hammer | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 sludge | punct |
| 32 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 en | compound |
| 33 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 grab | obj |
| 34 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 35 open | obl |
| 35 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 grab | conj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 open | compound:prt |
| 37 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 racket | amod |
| 38 | racket | racket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 open | obl |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 racket | punct |
| 40 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 43 gun | case |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 gun | punct |
| 42 | ennybody | ennybody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 gun | compound |
| 43 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 open | obl |
| 44 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 45 word | compound |
| 45 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 gun | conj |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 shove | punct |
| 47 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 52 shove | cc |
| 48 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 shove | nsubj |
| 49 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Brer | flat |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 shove | punct |
| 51 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 shove | nsubj |
| 52 | shove | shove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 grab | parataxis |
| 53 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Rabbit | compound |
| 54 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 out'n | compound |
| 55 | out'n | out'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 en | compound |
| 56 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 57 way | compound |
| 57 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 en | compound |
| 58 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 shove | obj |
| 59 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 shove | conj |
| 60 | up | up | ADP | _ | 59 pick | compound:prt |
| 61 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 63 hisse'f | amod |
| 62 | sludge | sludge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 hisse'f | compound |
| 63 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 pick | obj |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 grab | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dar | Rabbit | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | en | dat | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | grab up | present | brash | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme | |||||
| 4 | open up | present | er | for ennybody gun and de word; de racket obl | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | shove | present | Brer | out'n way en | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pick up | present | Brer not said here | de sludge hisse'f | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hisse'f=Topic |
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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