Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 19
"'I 'lowed maybe dat I might ax you fer ter butt 'gin de tree, en shake some down, Sis Cow,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
Who acts: UNCLE REMUS, dat · What happens: low, ax, shake down, say · To what, where: you, some, 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, dat), 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 | _ | 5 lowed | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 lowed | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 lowed | nsubj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 lowed | punct |
| 5 | lowed | low | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 7 dat | advmod |
| 7 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ax | nsubj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ax | nsubj |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 ax | aux |
| 10 | ax | ax | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lowed | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 ax | obj |
| 12 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 butt | amod |
| 13 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 butt | compound |
| 14 | butt | butt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ax | obj |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 gin | punct |
| 16 | gin | gin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 butt | appos |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 gin | flat:foreign |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gin | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 en | punct |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gin | conj |
| 21 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ax | parataxis |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 shake | obj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 shake | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Cow | punct |
| 25 | Sis | Sis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Cow | compound |
| 26 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shake | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sez | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 sez | punct |
| 29 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lowed | conj |
| 30 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sez | obj |
| 31 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Brer | flat |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sezee | punct |
| 33 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Brer | appos |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | low in a quote | past | UNCLE REMUS = remus | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ax in a quote | might | dat | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shake down in a quote | infinitive | some | down property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent some=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | UNCLE REMUS = remus not said here | 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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