Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 13
"Seem like dat de tale 'bout how he got mixt up wid de Tar-Baby got 'roun' 'mongst de nabers.
Who acts: you, Tar · What happens: seem, mixt up, get · To what, where: dat, roun
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives 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, Tar), 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 Seem | punct |
| 2 | Seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 dat | case |
| 4 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Seem | obl |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 tale | compound |
| 6 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dat | appos |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 tale | punct |
| 8 | bout | bout | SCONJ | _ | 12 mixt | mark |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 mixt | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 mixt | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 mixt | aux:pass |
| 12 | mixt | mixt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Seem | xcomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 mixt | compound:prt |
| 14 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mixt | obj |
| 15 | de | de | ADP | _ | 19 got | mark |
| 16 | Tar | Tar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 got | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Baby | punct |
| 18 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Tar | conj |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 mixt | advcl |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 roun | punct |
| 21 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obj |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 roun | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 roun | punct |
| 24 | mongst | mongst | ADP | _ | 26 nabers | case |
| 25 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 nabers | compound |
| 26 | nabers | naber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 got | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | imperative | you not said here | like dat | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | mixt up in a quote | past · passive | dat | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | past | Tar and Baby | roun | mongst de nabers | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer roun=Stimulus |
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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