Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 3
I 'clar ter grashus I ought er tole you dat, but old man Nod wuz ridin' on my eyeleds 'twel a leetle mo'n I'd a dis'member'd my own name, en den on to dat here come yo mammy hollerin' atter you.
Who acts: I, you, old man, leetle mo'n · What happens: grashus, er, dat, ridin, name, come · To what, where: tole, twel
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 (I, you, old man, leetle mo'n), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 grashus | nsubj |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 grashus | punct |
| 3 | clar | clar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grashus | amod |
| 4 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grashus | compound |
| 5 | grashus | grashus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 come | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 er | nsubj |
| 7 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 er | aux |
| 8 | er | er | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 grashus | acl:relcl |
| 9 | tole | tole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 er | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 dat | nsubj |
| 11 | dat | dat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tole | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ridin | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 ridin | cc |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ridin | nsubj |
| 16 | Nod | Nod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ridin | compound |
| 17 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ridin | compound |
| 18 | ridin | ridin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grashus | conj |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 ridin | punct |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 twel | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyeleds | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyeleds | eyeled | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 twel | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 22 eyeleds | case |
| 24 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ridin | nmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 mo'n | det |
| 26 | leetle | leetle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 mo'n | amod |
| 27 | mo'n | mo'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 name | nsubj |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 'd | nsubj |
| 29 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 mo'n | acl:relcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 dis'member | det |
| 31 | dis'member | dis'member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 'd | obj |
| 32 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 name | aux |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 name | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 name | amod |
| 35 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 twel | acl:relcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 den | punct |
| 37 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 den | compound |
| 38 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 name | appos |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 dat | case |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 dat | case |
| 41 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 den | nmod |
| 42 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 come | advmod |
| 43 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 44 | yo | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Slng | 46 hollerin | nmod:poss |
| 45 | mammy | mammy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 hollerin | compound |
| 46 | hollerin | hollerin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 come | obl |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 48 atter | punct |
| 48 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 hollerin | conj |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 hollerin | nsubj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grashus | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | er | ought | I | tole | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dat | present | you | tole not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ridin | old man | my eyeleds's twel | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | name | would | a leetle mo'n | my eyeleds's twel not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come | present | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | hollerin | you | 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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