Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 31
Den Brer Rabbit squall out dat ef de Tar-Baby don't tu'n 'im loose he butt 'er cranksided.
Who acts: Den, im, en den · What happens: squall out, do, loose, butt · To what, where: tu'n
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 (Den, im, 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 squall | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | squall | squall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 squall | compound:prt |
| 6 | dat | dat | ADP | _ | 7 ef | case |
| 7 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obl |
| 8 | de | de | ADP | _ | 9 Tar | case |
| 9 | Tar | Tar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ef | nmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Baby | punct |
| 11 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Tar | conj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 squall | conj |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 tu'n | advmod |
| 14 | tu'n | tu'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 loose | obl |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 tu'n | punct |
| 16 | im | im | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 loose | nsubj |
| 17 | loose | loose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | parataxis |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 butt | nsubj |
| 19 | butt | butt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 loose | obj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 butt | punct |
| 21 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 cranksided | advmod |
| 22 | cranksided | cranksided | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 loose | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 squall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squall out speech: other | present | Den | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | present | Den not said here | dat ef de Tar and Baby | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | loose | past | im | tu'n | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | butt | en den = den | 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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