Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 4
"Ole Molly Har', W'at you doin' dar, Settin' in de cornder Smokin' yo' seegyar?"
Who acts: yo · What happens: seegyar · To what, where: de cornder
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 (yo), 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 | _ | 3 Molly | punct |
| 2 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Molly | compound |
| 3 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dar | nsubj |
| 4 | Har | Har | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Molly | flat |
| 5 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 3 Molly | case |
| 6 | W'at | W'at | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Molly | flat |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 Molly | nmod |
| 8 | doin | doin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dar | compound |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 dar | punct |
| 10 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Settin | punct |
| 12 | Settin | Settin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dar | appos |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Settin | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cornder | case |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 cornder | compound |
| 16 | cornder | cornder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seegyar | obl |
| 17 | Smokin | Smokin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 yo | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 17 Smokin | case |
| 19 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seegyar | nsubj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 seegyar | punct |
| 21 | seegyar | seegyar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dar | conj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 seegyar | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 seegyar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seegyar in a quote | Smokin's yo | de cornder | 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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