Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 34
"Leas'ways," continued Uncle Remus, "Brer Rabbit got one er de gals, en dey had a weddin' en a big infa'r."
Who acts: Leas'ways, Brer, en dey · What happens: continue, get, have · To what, where: Uncle Remus, er de gals, en · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Leas'ways, Brer, en dey), 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 Leas'ways | punct |
| 2 | Leas'ways | leas'way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leas'ways | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leas'ways | punct |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Remus | compound |
| 7 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 got | nsubj |
| 11 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Brer | flat |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 continued | parataxis |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 er | nummod |
| 14 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gals | compound |
| 15 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gals | compound |
| 16 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 got | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dey | compound |
| 19 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 weddin | det |
| 22 | weddin | weddin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 en | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 22 weddin | case |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 infa'r | det |
| 26 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 infa'r | amod |
| 27 | infa'r | infa'r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Leas'ways | Uncle Remus | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | Brer | er de gals | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gal=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | en dey | a weddin's en | tree rules |
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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