Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 30

"'I can't clime, Sis Cow,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but I'll run'n tell Brer Bull,' sezee; en wid dat Brer Rabbit put out fer home, en 'twan't long 'fo here he come wid his ole 'oman en all his chilluns, en de las' one er de fambly wuz totin' a pail.

Who acts: UNCLE REMUS, clime, en wid dat, dat, las · What happens: not clime, say, tell, put out, come, wi · To what, where: Brer, Brer Bull, fer, chilluns, ole oman en · 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, clime, en wid dat, 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	_	12 sez	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 clime	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 clime	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 clime	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 clime	advmod
6	clime	clime	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sez	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Cow	punct
8	Sis	Sis	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Cow	compound
9	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clime	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 clime	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 clime	punct
12	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sez	obj
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Brer	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sezee	punct
16	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Brer	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sez	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 sez	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 tell	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
21	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
22	run'n	run'n	CCONJ	_	23 tell	cc
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sez	conj
24	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Bull	compound
25	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sezee	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 sezee	punct
28	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Bull	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 put	punct
30	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dat	compound
31	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dat	compound
32	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 put	nsubj
33	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 dat	appos
34	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Brer	flat
35	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 come	advcl
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 put	compound:prt
37	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 put	obj
38	home	home	ADV	_	35 put	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 twa	punct
40	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 twa	compound
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	42 twa	punct
42	twa	twa	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 put	parataxis
43	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 long	advmod
44	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 twa	advmod
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	42 twa	punct
46	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	47 here	case
47	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 put	obl
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 come	nsubj
49	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sez	conj
50	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 come	conj
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 en	nmod:poss
52	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 en	amod
53	'	'	PUNCT	_	52 ole	punct
54	oman	oman	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 en	compound
55	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 wid	obj
56	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	58 chilluns	det:predet
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 chilluns	nmod:poss
58	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 come	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 en	punct
60	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 chilluns	conj
61	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	58 chilluns	conj
62	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 totin	nsubj
63	'	's	PART	_	62 las	case
64	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	65 er	nummod
65	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 totin	nsubj
66	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	69 totin	compound
67	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	69 totin	advmod
68	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 totin	compound
69	totin	totin	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 chilluns	conj
70	'	'	PUNCT	_	69 totin	punct
71	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	72 pail	det
72	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 come	obl:unmarked
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sez	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not clime in a quote	can	UNCLE REMUS = remus				tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	clime and Sis Cow	Brer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	UNCLE REMUS = remus		Brer Bull and sezee		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bull=Recipient
4	put out in a quote	past	en wid dat	fer		home property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fer=Goal
5	come in a quote	present	dat	dat's chilluns and en and de wuz totin		a pail obl:unmarked	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	wi in a quote	past	dat not said here	dat's ole oman en			tree rules
7	totin in a quote		las			fambly property	tree rules

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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