Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 33
De ole uns milk't en de young uns milk't, en den w'en dey done got nuff, Brer Rabbit, he up'n say, sezee:
Who acts: De uns milk't, milk't · What happens: do, get, say · To what, where: dey, nuff, sezee · 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 (De uns milk't, milk't), 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 | De | De | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 milk't | compound |
| 2 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 uns | amod |
| 3 | uns | un | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 milk't | compound |
| 4 | milk't | milk't | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | nsubj |
| 5 | en | en | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 milk't | conj |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 en | flat:foreign |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 uns | amod |
| 8 | uns | un | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 got | nsubj |
| 9 | milk't | milk't | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 den | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 den | compound |
| 12 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 milk't | conj |
| 13 | w'en | w'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 den | flat |
| 14 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 milk't | conj |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 dey | acl |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Rabbit | punct |
| 19 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Rabbit | compound |
| 20 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 nuff | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 say | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 say | nsubj |
| 23 | up'n | up'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 say | nsubj |
| 24 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 got | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sezee | punct |
| 26 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 say | obj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | dey not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | past | De uns milk't | nuff | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nuff=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | milk't | sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=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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