Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 19
En Brer Coon, he sorter lick his cloze inter shape en rack off, en Brer Possum, he lay dar like he wuz dead, twel bimeby he raise up sorter keerful like, en w'en he fine de coas' cle'r he scramble up en scamper off like sumpin' was atter 'im."
Who acts: en, de · What happens: sorter, lick off, lie, raise up, scramble up, be · To what, where: cloze, dar, sorter, en scamper, im
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 (en, de), 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 | 7 lick | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 En | flat |
| 3 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 En | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorter | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sorter | nsubj |
| 6 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lick | nsubj |
| 7 | lick | lick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cloze | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cloze | cloze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lick | obj |
| 10 | inter | int | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 rack | amod |
| 11 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 en | compound |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rack | compound |
| 13 | rack | rack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lick | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 lick | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 en | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lick | obl |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 en | appos |
| 18 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Brer | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lay | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lay | nsubj |
| 21 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lick | advcl |
| 22 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lay | obj |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 wuz | case |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wuz | nsubj |
| 25 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lay | obl |
| 26 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lay | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bimeby | punct |
| 28 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bimeby | compound |
| 29 | bimeby | bimeby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lay | parataxis |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 raise | nsubj |
| 31 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 bimeby | acl |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 raise | compound:prt |
| 33 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 raise | obj |
| 34 | keerful | keerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 raise | xcomp |
| 35 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 29 bimeby | discourse |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 w'en | punct |
| 37 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 w'en | compound |
| 38 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 like | appos |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 fine | nsubj |
| 40 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 w'en | amod |
| 41 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 46 scramble | nsubj |
| 42 | coas | coa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 cle'r | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 42 coas | case |
| 44 | cle'r | cle'r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 de | appos |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 scramble | nsubj |
| 46 | scramble | scramble | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 40 fine | parataxis |
| 47 | up | up | ADP | _ | 46 scramble | compound:prt |
| 48 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 scamper | compound |
| 49 | scamper | scamper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 scramble | obj |
| 50 | off | off | ADP | _ | 46 scramble | compound:prt |
| 51 | like | like | ADP | _ | 52 sumpin | case |
| 52 | sumpin | sumpin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 im | obl |
| 53 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 52 sumpin | punct |
| 54 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 im | cop |
| 55 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 im | nmod:poss |
| 56 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 55 atter | case |
| 57 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 scramble | parataxis |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lick | punct |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 lick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sorter | en | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | lick off | infinitive | En | en's cloze | en obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lie | past | en | dar | like wuz | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dar=Theme | |||
| 4 | raise up | infinitive | en | sorter | keerful property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorter=Theme | |||
| 5 | scramble up | infinitive | de | en scamper | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location scamper=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | atter's im | like sumpin | 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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