Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 35
En wid dat Brer Rabbit lipt out er de do' and dodge 'mong the bushes, en sot dar watchin' for Brer Fox; en he ain't watch long, nudder, kaze Brer Fox flung off de flannil en crope out er de house en got whar he could cloze in on Brer Rabbit, en bimeby Brer Rabbit holler out: 'Oh, Brer Fox!
Who acts: En, Brer, de house en · What happens: wi, lipt out, do, dodge, not watch, fling off · To what, where: en, er, mong, long nudder, whar, bimeby holler
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 (En, Brer, de house 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 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wid | nsubj |
| 2 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lipt | nsubj |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | flat |
| 6 | lipt | lipt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wid | ccomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 lipt | compound:prt |
| 8 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obl |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 er | flat:foreign |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lipt | advcl |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dodge | cc |
| 13 | dodge | dodge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lipt | conj |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 mong | punct |
| 15 | mong | mong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dodge | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bushes | det |
| 17 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mong | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 en | punct |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mong | conj |
| 20 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 watchin | compound |
| 21 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 watchin | compound |
| 22 | watchin | watchin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mong | conj |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 watchin | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 Fox | case |
| 25 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Fox | compound |
| 26 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mong | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 en | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wid | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 ai | nsubj |
| 30 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 en | acl:relcl |
| 31 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 watch | advmod |
| 32 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 ai | xcomp |
| 33 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 nudder | amod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 nudder | punct |
| 35 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 watch | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 kaze | punct |
| 37 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 nudder | conj |
| 38 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 flung | nsubj |
| 39 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Brer | flat |
| 40 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 nudder | acl:relcl |
| 41 | off | off | ADP | _ | 40 flung | compound:prt |
| 42 | de | de | ADP | _ | 45 crope | case |
| 43 | flannil | flannil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 en | compound |
| 44 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 crope | compound |
| 45 | crope | crope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 flung | obl |
| 46 | out | out | ADV | _ | 47 er | advmod |
| 47 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 51 got | advmod |
| 48 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 en | amod |
| 49 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 en | compound |
| 50 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 got | nsubj |
| 51 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 flung | advcl |
| 52 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 got | obj |
| 53 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 cloze | nsubj |
| 54 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 cloze | aux |
| 55 | cloze | cloze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 got | xcomp |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 59 Rabbit | case |
| 57 | on | on | ADP | _ | 59 Rabbit | case |
| 58 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 Rabbit | compound |
| 59 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 65 holler | obl |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 bimeby | punct |
| 61 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 bimeby | compound |
| 62 | bimeby | bimeby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 holler | compound |
| 63 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 62 bimeby | appos |
| 64 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 63 Brer | flat |
| 65 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 cloze | obj |
| 66 | out | out | ADP | _ | 55 cloze | compound:prt |
| 67 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 72 Fox | punct |
| 68 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 72 Fox | punct |
| 69 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 72 Fox | discourse |
| 70 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 69 Oh | punct |
| 71 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 72 Fox | compound |
| 72 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wid | obl |
| 73 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 wid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wi | past | En | en | Brer Fox obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lipt out | past | Brer dat | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | present | Brer dat not said here | er | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | dodge | infinitive | Brer dat not said here | mong and the bushes and en and sot dar watchin | for Brer Fox | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent mong=Location | |||
| 5 | not watch | infinitive | En not said here | long nudder and kaze | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nudder=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fling off | past | Brer | long nudder and kaze not said here | de en crope | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nudder=Theme | |||
| 7 | get | past | de house en | whar | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | cloze out | could | Brer | bimeby holler | 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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