Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 21
"Brer Rabbit keep on axin' 'im, en de Tar-Baby, she keep on sayin' nothin', twel present'y Brer Rabbit draw back wid his fis', he did, en blip he tuck 'er side er de head.
Who acts: Baby, en · What happens: keep, draw back, wi, do, tuck · To what, where: Brer, axin, sayin, fis · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baby, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brer | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obl |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Brer | flat |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 axin | case |
| 6 | axin | axin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obl |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 im | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 im | punct |
| 9 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 axin | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 im | conj |
| 12 | de | de | ADP | _ | 13 Tar | case |
| 13 | Tar | Tar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 en | nmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Baby | punct |
| 15 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Tar | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 keep | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 keep | nsubj |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | parataxis |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 sayin | case |
| 20 | sayin | sayin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 keep | obl |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 nothin | punct |
| 22 | nothin | nothin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 present'y | compound |
| 23 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 22 nothin | punct |
| 24 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 present'y | compound |
| 25 | present'y | present'y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sayin | conj |
| 26 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 present'y | appos |
| 27 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Brer | flat |
| 28 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 keep | conj |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 wid | advmod |
| 30 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 draw | ccomp |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 fis | nmod:poss |
| 32 | fis | fi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 wid | obj |
| 33 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 32 fis | case |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 did | nsubj |
| 35 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 fis | acl:relcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 tuck | punct |
| 37 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 blip | compound |
| 38 | blip | blip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tuck | compound |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 tuck | nsubj |
| 40 | tuck | tuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wid | parataxis |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 tuck | punct |
| 42 | er | er | X | _ | 43 side | compound |
| 43 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tuck | conj |
| 44 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 46 head | dep |
| 45 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 46 head | compound |
| 46 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 side | appos |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | present | Brer | axin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on axin=Location | ||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | present | Baby | sayin and nothin twel present'y | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on sayin=Location | ||||
| 3 | draw back in a quote | infinitive | Baby not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wi in a quote | past | Baby not said here | en's fis | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | past | en | en's fis not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fi=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | tuck in a quote | en | 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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