Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 14
Leas'ways, Miss Meadows en de gals got win' un' it, en de nex' time Brer Rabbit paid um a visit Miss Meadows tackled 'im 'bout it, en de gals sot up a monstus gigglement.
Who acts: Leas'ways, Brer, Miss Meadows · What happens: get, pay, tackle up · To what, where: win un, en, im
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 (Leas'ways, Brer, Miss Meadows), 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 | Leas'ways | leas'way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 got | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 en | punct |
| 3 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Meadows | compound |
| 4 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 en | compound |
| 5 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leas'ways | conj |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Leas'ways | conj |
| 7 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 un | compound |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 win | punct |
| 11 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 un | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 en | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 paid | obl |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 nex | compound |
| 17 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | compound |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 nex | punct |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 paid | nsubj |
| 21 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Brer | flat |
| 22 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | parataxis |
| 23 | um | um | ADP | _ | 25 visit | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 visit | det |
| 25 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tackled | obl |
| 26 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Meadows | compound |
| 27 | Meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 tackled | nsubj |
| 28 | tackled | tackle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 paid | conj |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 im | punct |
| 30 | im | im | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tackled | obj |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 im | punct |
| 32 | bout | bout | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 tackled | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 sot | punct |
| 35 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 de | compound |
| 36 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gals | compound |
| 37 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 sot | compound |
| 38 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tackled | obl |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 tackled | compound:prt |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 gigglement | det |
| 41 | monstus | monstus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 gigglement | compound |
| 42 | gigglement | gigglement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tackled | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Leas'ways and Meadows en | win un | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent un=Beneficiary it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay | past | Brer nex time | en | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tackle up | past | Miss Meadows | im | um a visit; bout en; gals sot obl | 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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