Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 15

"'Dey er des middlin', Sis Cow; how Brer Bull gittin' on?' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.

Who acts: Dey des middlin · What happens: say · To what, where: 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 (Dey des middlin), 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	_	19 sez	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 middlin	punct
3	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 middlin	compound
4	er	er	X	_	3 Dey	flat:foreign
5	des	des	X	_	6 middlin	compound
6	middlin	middlin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sez	nsubj
7	',	',	PART	_	6 middlin	dep
8	Sis	Sis	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 middlin	appos
9	Cow	Cow	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Sis	flat
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 gittin	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 gittin	advmod
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 gittin	compound
13	Bull	Bull	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Brer	flat
14	gittin	gittin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 middlin	parataxis
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 gittin	punct
16	on	on	ADP	_	14 gittin	compound
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 gittin	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 gittin	punct
19	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sez	obj
21	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Brer	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sezee	punct
23	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Brer	appos
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sez	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Dey des middlin	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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