Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 38
"Wid dat de man tuck a stick and lam down on de maul so hard dat he kill Brer Fox stone-dead.
Who acts: man · What happens: tuck, lam down, kill · To what, where: stick, maul, Brer Fox · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:1541): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 tuck | punct |
| 2 | Wid | wid | ADP | _ | 3 dat | case |
| 3 | dat | dat | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 tuck | obl |
| 4 | de | de | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tuck | nsubj |
| 6 | tuck | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stick | det |
| 8 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tuck | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lam | cc |
| 10 | lam | lam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tuck | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 lam | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 maul | case |
| 13 | de | de | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 maul | det |
| 14 | maul | maul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lam | obl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 hard | advmod |
| 16 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 lam | advmod |
| 17 | dat | dat | SCONJ | _ | 19 kill | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 kill | nsubj |
| 19 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hard | ccomp |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Fox | compound |
| 21 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 kill | obj |
| 22 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dead | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 stone | punct |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kill | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck in a quote | past | de man | a stick | wid dat | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | |||
| 2 | lam down in a quote | past | de man not said here | de maul | down, hard property | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on maul=Location | |||
| 3 | kill in a quote | past | man | Brer Fox | dead property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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