Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 29
"Den Brer Possum he make triul, en Brer Coon, en all de balance un um 'cep' Brer Tarrypin, en he 'low dat he got a crick in his neck.
Who acts: Den · What happens: make, get · To what, where: triul, crick, neck
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 (Den), 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 | _ | 2 Den | punct |
| 2 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 make | nsubj |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | flat |
| 4 | Possum | possum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | flat |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | nsubj |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | triul | triul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 en | punct |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 triul | conj |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 en | appos |
| 11 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Brer | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 en | punct |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 triul | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 um | det |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 all | flat:foreign |
| 16 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 un | compound |
| 17 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 um | compound |
| 18 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | xcomp |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 cep | punct |
| 20 | cep | cep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 cep | punct |
| 22 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 um | appos |
| 23 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Brer | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 en | punct |
| 25 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Brer | appos |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 got | nsubj |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 got | punct |
| 28 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 dat | amod |
| 29 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 got | nsubj |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 got | nsubj |
| 31 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 en | acl:relcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 crick | det |
| 33 | crick | crick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 got | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 neck | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 neck | nmod:poss |
| 36 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 crick | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | Den | triul and en and en | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent triul=Product | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | den | a crick | den's neck | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crick=Stimulus |
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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