Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 41
I lef' you yer fer ter watch dish yere hole, en I lef' Brer Rabbit in dar.
Who acts: I, fer · What happens: lef, watch · To what, where: dish
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fer), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 lef | nsubj |
| 2 | lef | lef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fer | nsubj |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 lef | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 fer | nsubj |
| 5 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fer | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ter | ter | PART | _ | 8 watch | mark |
| 8 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fer | acl |
| 9 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watch | obj |
| 10 | yere | yere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hole | amod |
| 11 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watch | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 en | punct |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hole | conj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 15 | lef | lef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Rabbit | punct |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Rabbit | compound |
| 18 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 en | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 dar | case |
| 20 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Rabbit | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lef | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | watch | infinitive | yer's fer not said here | dish | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent dish=Theme hole=Attribute |
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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