Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 17
Den Mr. Dog, he sail inter Brer Coon, en right dar's whar he drap his money purse, kaze Brer Coon wuz cut out fer dat kinder bizness, en he fa'rly wipe up de face er de yeth wid 'im.
Who acts: Den, en · What happens: sail, drap, cut out, wipe up · To what, where: whar, face er
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, 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 | Den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Dog | nsubj |
| 2 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Dog | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sail | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sail | nsubj |
| 6 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Dog | appos |
| 7 | inter | int | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 sail | amod |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 inter | obl |
| 9 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Brer | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Dog | appos |
| 12 | right | right | ADV | _ | 15 whar | advmod |
| 13 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 whar | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 dar | case |
| 15 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 en | nmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 drap | nsubj |
| 17 | drap | drap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 15 whar | acl:relcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 purse | nmod:poss |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 purse | compound |
| 20 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 en | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kaze | punct |
| 22 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 purse | appos |
| 23 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 wuz | compound |
| 24 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Brer | flat |
| 25 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kaze | conj |
| 26 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 dat | amod |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 cut | compound:prt |
| 28 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dat | compound |
| 29 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wuz | appos |
| 30 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 bizness | amod |
| 31 | bizness | bizness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dat | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 en | punct |
| 33 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 purse | conj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 wipe | nsubj |
| 35 | fa'rly | fa'rly | ADV | _ | 36 wipe | advmod |
| 36 | wipe | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 en | acl:relcl |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 wipe | compound:prt |
| 38 | de | de | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 er | nmod:poss |
| 39 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 er | compound |
| 40 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wipe | obl |
| 41 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 40 er | flat:foreign |
| 42 | yeth | yeth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 wid | amod |
| 43 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 im | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 43 wid | case |
| 45 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wipe | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dog | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | Den | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | drap | present | en | dar's whar not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cut out | participle | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | wipe up | infinitive | en | de's face er | fa'rly property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent im=Source |
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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