Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 59
Mr. Fox ketch de Rabbit, en he scratch um en he claws um-- (Hey O!
Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: scratch, claw · To what, where: Fox ketch
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ketch | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ketch | compound |
| 3 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scratch | obl |
| 4 | de | de | ADP | _ | 5 Rabbit | case |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ketch | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 en | punct |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ketch | conj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 scratch | nsubj |
| 9 | scratch | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 en | compound |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scratch | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 claws | nsubj |
| 13 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scratch | parataxis |
| 14 | um | um | ADV | _ | 9 scratch | advmod |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hey | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hey | punct |
| 17 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 9 scratch | discourse |
| 18 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 17 Hey | discourse |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 scratch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | present | Rabbit | Fox ketch Mr. de Rabbit and en | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme | ||||
| 2 | claw | Rabbit | 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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