Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 29
Dar wuz a considerbul flutter whar Brer Rabbit struck de bushes, en Brer Fox sorter hang 'roun' fer ter see w'at wuz gwineter happen.
Who acts: Dar wuz, Brer Fox sorter, w'at · What happens: strike, hang, see, happen · To what, where: bushes, roun fer ter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Dar wuz, Brer Fox sorter, w'at), 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 | Dar | Dar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wuz | compound |
| 2 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 whar | det |
| 4 | considerbul | considerbul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 whar | amod |
| 5 | flutter | flutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whar | compound |
| 6 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 whar | appos |
| 8 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | flat |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | de | de | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bushes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 struck | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 en | punct |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obl |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sorter | compound |
| 15 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sorter | compound |
| 16 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hang | nsubj |
| 17 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 en | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 roun | punct |
| 19 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ter | compound |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 roun | punct |
| 21 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ter | compound |
| 22 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hang | obj |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hang | conj |
| 24 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 happen | nsubj |
| 25 | wuz | wuz | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 gwineter | amod |
| 26 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 w'at | conj |
| 27 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 see | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Dar wuz | de's bushes | en obl | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=Patient | |||
| 2 | hang | infinitive | Brer Fox sorter | roun fer ter | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Brer Fox sorter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | happen | infinitive | w'at and wuz gwineter | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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