Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 18
"Nex' day, Mr. Rabbit an' Miss Rabbit got up soom, 'fo' day, en raided on a gyarden like Miss Sally's out dar, en got some cabbiges, en some roas'n--years, en some sparrer-grass, en dey fix up a smashin' dinner.
Who acts: Miss Rabbit, soom, cabbiges · What happens: get up, raid, get, fix up · To what, where: day en, gyarden, cabbiges, dinner
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 (Miss Rabbit, soom, cabbiges), 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 Nex | punct |
| 2 | Nex | Nex | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nex | punct |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Nex | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Rabbit | punct |
| 6 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Rabbit | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Nex | conj |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Nex | conj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 10 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Rabbit | compound |
| 11 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 an | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 got | compound:prt |
| 14 | soom | soom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 got | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 en | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 en | punct |
| 17 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 19 day | case |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 day | punct |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 en | compound |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 day | punct |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soom | conj |
| 22 | raided | raid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 en | acl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 gyarden | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 gyarden | det |
| 25 | gyarden | gyarden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 raided | obl |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 dar | case |
| 27 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Sally | compound |
| 28 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 dar | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Sally | case |
| 30 | out | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes | 31 dar | nmod:poss |
| 31 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 raided | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 en | punct |
| 33 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dar | conj |
| 34 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | parataxis |
| 35 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 cabbiges | det |
| 36 | cabbiges | cabbige | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 got | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 en | punct |
| 38 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cabbiges | conj |
| 39 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 roas'n | det |
| 40 | roas'n | roas'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cabbiges | appos |
| 41 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 years | punct |
| 42 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 roas'n | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 en | punct |
| 44 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 roas'n | conj |
| 45 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 48 grass | det |
| 46 | sparrer | sparrer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 grass | compound |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 sparrer | punct |
| 48 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 en | appos |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 dey | punct |
| 50 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 dey | compound |
| 51 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 grass | appos |
| 52 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 got | xcomp |
| 53 | up | up | ADP | _ | 52 fix | compound:prt |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 smashin | det |
| 55 | smashin | smashin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 56 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 55 smashin | case |
| 57 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 fix | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nex | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up in a quote | past | Miss Rabbit | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | raid in a quote | participle | day en not said here | a gyarden | like Miss Sally's dar and en | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | get in a quote | past | soom and day en | some cabbiges and en | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fix up in a quote | infinitive | some cabbiges and en not said here | a smashin's dinner | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
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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