Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 17

"'Dey er some mighty nice 'simmons up dis tree, Sis Cow,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en I'd like mighty well fer ter have some un um,' sezee.

Who acts: UNCLE REMUS, fer ter · What happens: say, like, have · To what, where: Brer Rabbit, en, un um · 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, fer ter), 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	_	18 sez	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 er	punct
3	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 er	nsubj
4	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 sez	advmod
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 simmons	det
6	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 simmons	amod
7	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 simmons	amod
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 simmons	punct
9	simmons	simmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 er	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 simmons	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Cow	punct
14	Sis	Sis	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Cow	compound
15	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 er	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 er	punct
18	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Rabbit	compound
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sez	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sezee	punct
22	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Rabbit	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 en	punct
25	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 like	obl
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 like	nsubj
27	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 like	aux
28	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sez	parataxis
29	mighty	mighty	ADV	_	28 like	advmod
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 fer	advmod
31	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 ter	amod
32	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 have	nsubj
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 like	parataxis
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 um	det
35	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 um	compound
36	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sezee	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	39 sezee	punct
39	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 um	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 sez	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present		Brer Rabbit and sezee		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rabbit=Topic
2	like in a quote	would	UNCLE REMUS = remus	en	mighty property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	have in a quote	present	fer ter	some un um and sezee		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient

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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