Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 21
"Nex' day, Brer Fox cum a callin', and w'en he gun fer ter laugh 'bout Brer Rabbit, Miss Meadows en de gals, dey ups en tells 'im 'bout w'at Brer Rabbit Say.
Who acts: callin, Nex day · What happens: laugh, tell · To what, where: im · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (callin, Nex day), 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 Nex | punct |
| 2 | Nex | Nex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 day | compound |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nex | punct |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tells | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cum | punct |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cum | compound |
| 7 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cum | compound |
| 8 | cum | cum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | appos |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 callin | det |
| 10 | callin | callin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laugh | nsubj |
| 11 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 10 callin | dep |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 w'en | cc |
| 13 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 callin | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 laugh | nsubj |
| 15 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laugh | nsubj |
| 16 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 laugh | amod |
| 17 | ter | ter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 laugh | amod |
| 18 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cum | nmod |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 laugh | punct |
| 20 | bout | bout | ADP | _ | 22 Rabbit | case |
| 21 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Rabbit | compound |
| 22 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 en | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Rabbit | punct |
| 24 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Meadows | compound |
| 25 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 en | compound |
| 26 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gals | compound |
| 27 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 en | flat:foreign |
| 28 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 en | compound |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ups | punct |
| 30 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ups | compound |
| 31 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gals | conj |
| 32 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cum | conj |
| 33 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 im | punct |
| 35 | im | im | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 tells | obj |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 im | punct |
| 37 | bout | bout | ADP | _ | 38 w'at | case |
| 38 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tells | obl |
| 39 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Rabbit | compound |
| 40 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Say | compound |
| 41 | Say | Say | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 w'at | appos |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | a callin and w'en | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | Nex day | im | bout w'at | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent im=Recipient |
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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