Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 43
Tobe he wuz mighty hongry, en he look in de pot he did w'iles de cookin' wuz gwine on, en dar he see his daddy head, en wid dat he sot up a howl en tole his mammy.
Who acts: Tobe, w'iles · What happens: wuz, look, do, cookin up, see, sot · To what, where: en, w'iles, wuz gwine, daddy head
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 (Tobe, w'iles), 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 | Tobe | Tobe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wuz | nsubj |
| 3 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hongry | amod |
| 5 | hongry | hongry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wuz | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 look | nsubj |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 3 wuz | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pot | case |
| 11 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pot | amod |
| 12 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pot | acl:relcl |
| 15 | w'iles | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 did | obj |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 w'iles | conj |
| 17 | cookin | cookin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 w'iles | acl |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 gwine | punct |
| 19 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gwine | compound |
| 20 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cookin | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 gwine | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dar | punct |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dar | compound |
| 24 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gwine | conj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 dar | acl:relcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 head | compound |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 see | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dat | punct |
| 31 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wid | compound |
| 32 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dat | compound |
| 33 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sot | compound |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sot | nsubj |
| 35 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gwine | conj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 cookin | compound:prt |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 tole | det |
| 38 | howl | howl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 en | compound |
| 39 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tole | compound |
| 40 | tole | tole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cookin | obj |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 mammy | nmod:poss |
| 42 | mammy | mammy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tole | appos |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz | present | Tobe | hongry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present | Tobe | en | in de pot | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pot=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | past | Tobe | w'iles | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'ile=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | cookin up | gerund | w'iles not said here | wuz gwine and en dar and dat sot | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | past | Tobe | Tobe's daddy head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | sot | Tobe | 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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