Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 6
Well, den, honey, don't you go en make no udder calkalashuns, kaze in dem days Brer Rabbit en his fambly wuz at de head er de gang w'en enny racket wuz on han', en dar dey stayed. '
Who acts: den, you, Brer, de gang · What happens: do, not go, make, en, stay · To what, where: en, udder calkalashuns, fambly wuz, de head 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 (den, you, Brer, de gang), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 3 den | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 honey | punct |
| 5 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 den | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 den | punct |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 den | acl:relcl |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 go | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | advcl |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obj |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 calkalashuns | det |
| 14 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 calkalashuns | compound |
| 15 | calkalashuns | calkalashun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 make | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kaze | punct |
| 17 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 calkalashuns | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 days | case |
| 19 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 days | compound |
| 20 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 en | obl |
| 21 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 en | nsubj |
| 22 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Brer | flat |
| 23 | en | en | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 calkalashuns | acl:relcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wuz | nmod:poss |
| 25 | fambly | fambly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wuz | amod |
| 26 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 en | obj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 er | case |
| 28 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 er | compound |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 er | compound |
| 30 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 en | obl |
| 31 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 32 gang | compound |
| 32 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 stayed | nsubj |
| 33 | w'en | w'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 gang | flat |
| 34 | enny | enny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 wuz | amod |
| 35 | racket | racket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wuz | compound |
| 36 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 stayed | nsubj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 dey | case |
| 38 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 en | compound |
| 39 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 38 han | dep |
| 40 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 dey | nsubj |
| 41 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 dey | compound |
| 42 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wuz | nmod |
| 43 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 er | acl:relcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | infinitive | den and honey not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not go | present | you | en | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | present | den and honey | no udder calkalashuns and kaze | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset calkalashun=Product | ||||
| 4 | en | past | Brer | Brer's fambly wuz | de head er | day | tree rules | ||
| 5 | stay | past | de gang | de head er not said here | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme er=Location |
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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