Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 12
"Den Brer Rabbit scratch one year wid his off hinefoot sorter jub'usly, en den he ups en sez, sezee:
Who acts: Den, sorter, en · What happens: scratch, wi, up, say · To what, where: hinefoot sorter, den ups · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, sorter, en), 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 Den | punct |
| 2 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 scratch | nsubj |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | flat |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | flat |
| 5 | scratch | scratch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 year | nummod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wid | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scratch | ccomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sorter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 his | compound:prt |
| 11 | hinefoot | hinefoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sorter | compound |
| 12 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wid | obj |
| 13 | jub'usly | jub'usly | ADV | _ | 5 scratch | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 den | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 den | compound |
| 16 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ups | compound |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ups | nsubj |
| 18 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scratch | obj |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sez | nsubj |
| 20 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 ups | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sezee | punct |
| 22 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ups | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 scratch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch in a quote | infinitive | Den | jub'usly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wi in a quote | past | Den not said here | Den's hinefoot sorter | year | tree rules | |||
| 3 | up in a quote | sorter | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | en | den ups and sezee not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent up=Topic |
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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