Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 13
"'Oh, I'm des toler'ble myse'f, Sis Cow; sorter linger'n' twix' a bauk en a break-down,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
Who acts: UNCLE REMUS, des toler'ble myse'f · What happens: be, say · To what, where: des toler'ble myse'f, Brer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UNCLE REMUS, des toler'ble myse'f), 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 | _ | 28 sez | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 myse'f | punct |
| 3 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 myse'f | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Oh | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 myse'f | nsubj |
| 6 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 myse'f | cop |
| 7 | des | des | X | _ | 9 myse'f | compound |
| 8 | toler'ble | toler'ble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 myse'f | amod |
| 9 | myse'f | myse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sez | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Cow | punct |
| 11 | Sis | Sis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Cow | compound |
| 12 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 myse'f | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 linger'n | punct |
| 14 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 linger'n | compound |
| 15 | linger'n | linger'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 myse'f | conj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 twix | punct |
| 17 | twix | twix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 linger'n | appos |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 twix | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 en | det |
| 20 | bauk | bauk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 en | compound |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 myse'f | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 down | det |
| 23 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 down | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 break | punct |
| 25 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 en | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 myse'f | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 myse'f | punct |
| 28 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sez | obj |
| 30 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Brer | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sezee | punct |
| 32 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Brer | appos |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | UNCLE REMUS = remus | des toler'ble myse'f and Sis Cow and sorter linger'n and a bauk en a break down | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | des toler'ble myse'f and Sis Cow and sorter linger'n and a bauk en a break down | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |
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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