Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 21
En den Brer Rabbit he tuck de chilluns by der years en make um set down, en den him and Miss Rabbit sorter dally roun' waitin' for Brer Fox.
Who acts: Brer, en den · What happens: tuck, make, set down, rabbit · To what, where: de, sorter
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 (Brer, en den), 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 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 den | compound |
| 2 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tuck | nsubj |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Brer | flat |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tuck | nsubj |
| 6 | tuck | tuck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 tuck | obl |
| 8 | chilluns | chillun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tuck | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 en | case |
| 10 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 years | amod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 en | compound |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obl |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tuck | parataxis |
| 14 | um | um | ADV | _ | 13 make | advmod |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | xcomp |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 set | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 den | punct |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 den | compound |
| 19 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 den | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Miss | cc |
| 22 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 him | conj |
| 23 | Rabbit | rabbit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tuck | parataxis |
| 24 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Rabbit | obj |
| 25 | dally | dally | ADV | _ | 26 roun | advmod |
| 26 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Rabbit | obl |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 waitin | punct |
| 28 | waitin | waitin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 roun | conj |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 waitin | punct |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 Fox | case |
| 31 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Fox | compound |
| 32 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 waitin | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck | infinitive | Brer En den | de | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chillun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | by years en | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | set down | infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | rabbit | present | en den Brer | sorter | roun and waitin for Brer Fox obl | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorter=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/4/21/