Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 9
Dey all say dey gwine do it, but ole Brer Rabbit, he crope off whar der wuz a cool place under some jimson weeds, en dar he sot wukkin his mind how he gwineter git dus' out'n dat rock.
Who acts: Dey, crope, dar sot · What happens: say, do, crope, sot, wukkin, rock · To what, where: dey gwine, gwine, mind · 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 (Dey, crope, dar sot), 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 | Dey | Dey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 say | advmod |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gwine | compound |
| 5 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | obj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Rabbit | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 Rabbit | cc |
| 10 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Rabbit | amod |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Rabbit | compound |
| 12 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 say | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crope | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 crope | nsubj |
| 15 | crope | crope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sot | nsubj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 whar | case |
| 17 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crope | nmod |
| 18 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 wuz | amod |
| 19 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crope | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 21 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 place | amod |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sot | nsubj |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 weeds | case |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 weeds | det |
| 25 | jimson | jimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 weeds | compound |
| 26 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 place | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dar | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dar | compound |
| 29 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sot | compound |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sot | nsubj |
| 31 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Rabbit | parataxis |
| 32 | wukkin | wukkin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 sot | acl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 mind | nmod:poss |
| 34 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wukkin | obj |
| 35 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 rock | advmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 rock | nsubj |
| 37 | gwineter | gwinet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 dus | amod |
| 38 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dus | compound |
| 39 | dus | dus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 he | conj |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 out'n | punct |
| 41 | out'n | out'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dus | conj |
| 42 | dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 rock | det |
| 43 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wukkin | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Dey | dey gwine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gwine=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Dey not said here | gwine | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | crope | dey | off whar | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sot | crope and der wuz | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | wukkin | gerund | dar sot not said here | dey's mind | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | rock | dey | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | mind | dey | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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