Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 15
Brer Rabbit, he sot up des ez cool ez a cowcumber, he did, en let em run on.
Who acts: Brer, en, em · What happens: sot, do, let, run on · To what, where: en, em
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 (Brer, en, em), 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 did | nsubj |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sot | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sot | nsubj |
| 5 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | appos |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Brer | compound:prt |
| 7 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Brer | dep |
| 8 | ez | ez | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Brer | dep |
| 9 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cowcumber | amod |
| 10 | ez | ez | X | _ | 12 cowcumber | compound |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cowcumber | det |
| 12 | cowcumber | cowcumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | list |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brer | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 en | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 did | obj |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 en | acl:relcl |
| 19 | em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 run | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sot | Brer | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | Brer | en | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | en not said here | em = they | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run on | infinitive | em = they not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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