Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 28
"Bimeby, w'en de shadders wuz at der shortes', Brer Rabbit he sorter brush up en sa'nter down ter Brer Fox's house, en w'en he got dar, he hear somebody groanin', en he look in de do' an dar he see Brer Fox settin' up in a rockin'-cheer all wrop up wid flannil, en he look mighty weak.
Who acts: Bimeby shadders, ha'r, dar, cheer · What happens: wuz, brush up, get, hear, look, do · To what, where: en sa'nter, en w'en, groanin en, Brer Fox settin, rockin, wid flannil
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 (Bimeby shadders, ha'r, dar, cheer), 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 Bimeby | punct |
| 2 | Bimeby | Bimeby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shadders | compound |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bimeby | punct |
| 4 | w'en | w'en | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 Bimeby | conj |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 w'en | flat |
| 6 | shadders | shadder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wuz | nsubj |
| 7 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Rabbit | case |
| 9 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 shortes | amod |
| 10 | shortes | shorte | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Rabbit | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 10 shortes | case |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Rabbit | compound |
| 13 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 brush | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brush | nsubj |
| 15 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brush | nsubj |
| 16 | brush | brush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wuz | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 brush | compound:prt |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sa'nter | compound |
| 19 | sa'nter | sa'nter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brush | obj |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 brush | advmod |
| 21 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 22 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Fox | compound |
| 23 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Fox | case |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brush | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 w'en | punct |
| 27 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 w'en | compound |
| 28 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 house | appos |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 got | nsubj |
| 30 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 w'en | acl:relcl |
| 31 | dar | dar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 got | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hear | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 hear | nsubj |
| 34 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 7 wuz | conj |
| 35 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 36 groanin | compound |
| 36 | groanin | groanin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 en | compound |
| 37 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 36 groanin | dep |
| 38 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hear | obj |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 look | nsubj |
| 40 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 hear | parataxis |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 de | case |
| 42 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 look | obl |
| 43 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 40 look | conj |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 48 see | punct |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 dar | det |
| 46 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 see | nsubj |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 see | nsubj |
| 48 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 do | conj |
| 49 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 settin | compound |
| 50 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 settin | compound |
| 51 | settin | settin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 see | obj |
| 52 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 51 settin | punct |
| 53 | up | up | ADP | _ | 51 settin | compound |
| 54 | in | in | ADP | _ | 56 rockin | case |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 rockin | det |
| 56 | rockin | rockin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 settin | nmod |
| 57 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 56 rockin | punct |
| 58 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 59 cheer | punct |
| 59 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 rockin | conj |
| 60 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 61 wrop | advmod |
| 61 | wrop | wrop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 59 cheer | acl:relcl |
| 62 | up | up | ADP | _ | 61 wrop | compound:prt |
| 63 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 64 flannil | amod |
| 64 | flannil | flannil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 wrop | obj |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 66 en | punct |
| 66 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 flannil | conj |
| 67 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 68 look | nsubj |
| 68 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 66 en | parataxis |
| 69 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 70 weak | amod |
| 70 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 68 look | xcomp |
| 71 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz in a quote | present | Bimeby shadders | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | brush up in a quote | infinitive | ha'r | en sa'nter | at der shortes's Brer Rabbit; ter Brer Fox's house; down property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent sa'nter=Theme at rabbit=Destination | |||
| 3 | get in a quote | past | ha'r | en w'en not said here | dar property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer w'en=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | hear in a quote | present | ha'r | groanin en | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | look in a quote | present | ha'r | in de | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in de=Theme | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | present | ha'r not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | see in a quote | past | a dar | Brer Fox settin | a rockin and cheer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer settin=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | wrop up in a quote | present | cheer not said here | wid flannil and en | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | look in a quote | infinitive | ha'r | weak property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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