Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 56
Brer Rabbit 'greed, en den Brer Fox lipt out atter de saddle en de bridle.
Who acts: greed · What happens: lipt out · To what, where: atter
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 (greed), 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 | 4 greed | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Brer | case |
| 4 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lipt | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 den | punct |
| 6 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 den | compound |
| 7 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 greed | conj |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 den | appos |
| 9 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Brer | flat |
| 10 | lipt | lipt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 lipt | compound:prt |
| 12 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lipt | obj |
| 13 | de | de | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 en | nmod:poss |
| 14 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 en | compound |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lipt | obj |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 bridle | compound |
| 17 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 en | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lipt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lipt out | past | Brer's greed and en den | atter | 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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