Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 13
You bin cuttin' up yo' capers en bouncin''roun' in dis neighberhood ontwel you come ter b'leeve yo'se'f de boss er de whole gang.
Who acts: You, capers · What happens: bin up, bouncin, be · To what, where: cuttin, b'leeve yo'se'f, dis neighberhood ontwel
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, capers), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 bin | nsubj |
| 2 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cuttin | cuttin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bin | obj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 cuttin | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 bin | compound:prt |
| 6 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 capers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 yo | case |
| 8 | capers | caper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bouncin | nsubj |
| 9 | en | en | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 bouncin | compound |
| 10 | bouncin | bouncin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bin | parataxis |
| 11 | '' | '' | PUNCT | _ | 12 roun | punct |
| 12 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bouncin | conj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 roun | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 ontwel | case |
| 15 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ontwel | compound |
| 16 | neighberhood | neighberhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ontwel | compound |
| 17 | ontwel | ontwel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 yo'se'f | obl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 yo'se'f | nsubj |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 yo'se'f | cop |
| 20 | ter | ter | ADV | _ | 22 yo'se'f | advmod |
| 21 | b'leeve | b'leeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 yo'se'f | compound |
| 22 | yo'se'f | yo'se'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 roun | conj |
| 23 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 boss | compound |
| 24 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 yo'se'f | appos |
| 25 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 boss | conj |
| 26 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 er | flat:foreign |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 gang | amod |
| 28 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 er | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin up | present | You | cuttin | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cuttin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bouncin | yo's capers | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | b'leeve yo'se'f | dis neighberhood ontwel | ter property | 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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