Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 57
"Co'se, soon'z Brer Rabbit see Miss Fox go atter de water, he jump down en put out, en dis time he git clean away."
Who acts: Co'se, Fox · What happens: go, jump down, put out, git · To what, where: water, en
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 (Co'se, Fox), 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 Co'se | punct |
| 2 | Co'se | co'se | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 soon'z | punct |
| 4 | soon'z | soon'z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Co'se | conj |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | compound |
| 6 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Fox | nmod:poss |
| 7 | see | see | PART | _ | 6 Rabbit | case |
| 8 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Fox | compound |
| 9 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | nsubj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 water | nmod:poss |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 atter | flat:foreign |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 jump | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 jump | nsubj |
| 16 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 jump | compound:prt |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jump | obj |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 en | acl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 put | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 git | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dis | compound |
| 23 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 time | compound |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 git | compound |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 git | nsubj |
| 26 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 en | conj |
| 27 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 git | amod |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 clean | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | Co'se and soon'z | atter's water | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme | ||||
| 2 | jump down in a quote | infinitive | Fox | en and time git | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | put out in a quote | participle | en and time git not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | git in a quote | Fox | 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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