Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 67
Bimeby he draw in a long puff, en den let hit out in a cloud, en squar hisse'f back en holler out, he did:
Who acts: Bimeby, den · What happens: draw, hit out, do · To what, where: long puff, en den, cloud
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 (Bimeby, den), 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 | Bimeby | Bimeby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 draw | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 draw | nsubj |
| 3 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 puff | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 puff | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 puff | amod |
| 7 | puff | puff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 draw | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 den | punct |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 den | compound |
| 10 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hit | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hit | aux:pass |
| 12 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 draw | parataxis |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 hit | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cloud | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cloud | det |
| 16 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hit | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hisse'f | punct |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 squar | compound |
| 19 | squar | squar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hisse'f | compound |
| 20 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hit | obl |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 holler | advmod |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 holler | compound |
| 23 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hit | obl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 hit | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 did | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 did | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hit | conj |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | infinitive | Bimeby | a long puff | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in puff=Destination | ||||
| 2 | hit out | past · passive | en den | a cloud | squar hisse'f obl; en holler obl | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in cloud=Destination | |||
| 3 | do | past | den | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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