Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 4
Bless yo' soul, honey, Brer Rabbit went skippin' long home, he did, des ez sassy ez a jay-bird at a sparrer's nes'.
Who acts: you, Brer Rabbit, Rabbit, ez · What happens: bless, go, do, bird · To what, where: yo soul, skippin long home, nes
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, Brer Rabbit, Rabbit, ez), 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 | Bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soul | compound |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 yo | punct |
| 4 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bless | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 honey | punct |
| 6 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soul | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rabbit | compound |
| 9 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bless | parataxis |
| 11 | skippin | skippin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 home | compound |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 skippin | punct |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 home | amod |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bird | punct |
| 19 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bird | det |
| 20 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bird | amod |
| 21 | sassy | sassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bird | amod |
| 22 | ez | ez | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 bird | nsubj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bird | det |
| 24 | jay | jay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bird | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 jay | punct |
| 26 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bless | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 nes | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 sparrer | det |
| 29 | sparrer | sparrer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 nes | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 sparrer | case |
| 31 | nes | ne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bird | nmod |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 nes | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | imperative | you not said here | yo soul and honey | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Brer Rabbit | skippin long home | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | Rabbit | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bird | ez | a sparrer's nes | 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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