Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 23
Ole Brer Fox, he grab de sludge-hammer, he did, en he come down on de rock--blim!
Who acts: Ole Brer Fox, Fox · What happens: grab, do, come down · To what, where: de sludge hammer, en, de rock
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 (Ole Brer Fox, Fox), 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 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Fox | amod |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Fox | compound |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grab | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fox | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grab | nsubj |
| 6 | grab | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hammer | amod |
| 8 | sludge | sludge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hammer | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sludge | punct |
| 10 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grab | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grab | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 en | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 come | nsubj |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 15 en | acl:relcl |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 rock | case |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 rock | compound |
| 21 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | obl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 blim | punct |
| 23 | blim | blim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rock | conj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 grab | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | present | Ole Brer Fox | de sludge hammer | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Fox | en | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | come down | present | Fox | en not said here | de rock and blim | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=Theme |
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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