Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 49

"'Mornin', Sis Cow,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'bow you come on dis mornin'?' sezee.

Who acts: Sis Cow, you · What happens: say, come · To what, where: Brer, bow, dis mornin · 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 (Sis Cow, you), 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	_	9 sez	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 Cow	punct
3	Mornin	Mornin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Cow	nmod:poss
4	',	',	PART	_	3 Mornin	case
5	Sis	Sis	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Cow	compound
6	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sez	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Cow	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 Cow	punct
9	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sez	obj
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Brer	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sezee	punct
13	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Brer	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 bow	punct
16	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
18	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sez	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 mornin	case
20	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mornin	compound
21	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 mornin	punct
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
25	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sez	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Mornin's Sis Cow	Brer					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic
2	come in a quote	present	you	bow		dis mornin		sezee obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mornin=Location

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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