Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 52
Brer Rabbit say he can't ride widout bline bridle, kaze Brer Fox be shyin' at stumps long de road, en fling 'im off.
Who acts: Brer · What happens: say, not ride, be, im off · To what, where: stumps, Fox shyin, en fling · 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 (Brer), 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 | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ride | nsubj |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 ride | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 ride | advmod |
| 7 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | ccomp |
| 8 | widout | widout | ADP | _ | 10 bridle | case |
| 9 | bline | bline | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bridle | amod |
| 10 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ride | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kaze | punct |
| 12 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bridle | conj |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Fox | compound |
| 14 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shyin | compound |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 shyin | cop |
| 16 | shyin | shyin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ride | obl |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 shyin | punct |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 stumps | case |
| 19 | stumps | stump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ride | obl |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 road | amod |
| 21 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 road | compound |
| 22 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stumps | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fling | punct |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fling | compound |
| 25 | fling | fling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 road | conj |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 im | punct |
| 27 | im | im | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 fling | acl |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 im | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not ride | can | Brer | stumps long de road and en fling | widout bline bridle and kaze | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | Fox shyin | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | im off | participle | en fling not said here | 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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