Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 29

"'Come he'p me out, Brer Rabbit,' sez Miss Cow, sez she.

Who acts: you, sez Miss Cow · What happens: come out, say · To what, where: he'p, 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 (you, 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	_	3 Come	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Come	punct
3	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he'p	he'p	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Come	obj
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 he'p	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	3 Come	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Rabbit	punct
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Rabbit	compound
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Cow	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 Cow	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	3 Come	parataxis
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	_	3 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out in a quote	imperative	you not said here	he'p				Brer Rabbit obl	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient he'p=Result
2	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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