Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 28
"Co'se Brer Fox wanter hurt Brer Rabbit bad ez he kin, so he cotch 'im by de behime legs en slung 'im right in de middle er de brier-patch.
Who acts: Co'se Fox wanter, Brer · What happens: hurt, kin, im, sling · To what, where: Brer, de middle er
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 (Co'se Fox wanter, Brer), 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 Co'se | punct |
| 2 | Co'se | Co'se | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wanter | compound |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Co'se | flat |
| 4 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanter | compound |
| 5 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurt | nsubj |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hurt | obj |
| 8 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | flat |
| 9 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ez | amod |
| 10 | ez | ez | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kin | compound |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kin | nsubj |
| 12 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 im | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 im | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 im | nsubj |
| 16 | cotch | cotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 im | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 im | punct |
| 18 | im | im | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hurt | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 en | case |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 en | compound |
| 21 | behime | behime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 legs | compound |
| 22 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 en | compound |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slung | obl |
| 24 | slung | sling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 im | parataxis |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 im | punct |
| 26 | im | im | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 slung | parataxis |
| 27 | right | right | ADV | _ | 31 er | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 er | case |
| 29 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 er | compound |
| 30 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 er | compound |
| 31 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 im | obl |
| 32 | de | de | ADP | _ | 35 patch | case |
| 33 | brier | brier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 patch | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 brier | punct |
| 35 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 er | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt in a quote | past | Co'se Fox wanter | Brer | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brer=Patient | ||||
| 2 | kin in a quote | Brer | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | im in a quote | participle · passive | Brer | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sling in a quote | past | by de legs en | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by en=Destination | |||||
| 5 | im in a quote | participle | de middle er de brier patch | 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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