Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 14
"'How yo' fokes, Brer Rabbit?' sez Miss Cow, sez she.
Who acts: sez Miss Cow · What happens: say · To what, where: Cow · 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 (sez Miss Cow), 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 | _ | 9 Rabbit | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rabbit | punct |
| 3 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 Rabbit | advmod |
| 4 | yo | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fokes | punct |
| 6 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 yo | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rabbit | punct |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rabbit | compound |
| 9 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Cow | nsubj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rabbit | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rabbit | punct |
| 12 | sez | sez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Cow | amod |
| 13 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Cow | compound |
| 14 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sez | punct |
| 16 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Cow | acl:relcl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sez | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Cow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | sez Miss Cow not said here | Cow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=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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