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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 52

I can't pull loose,' sez she, 'but ef you'll come en ketch holt er my tail, Brer Rabbit,' sez she, 'I reckin may be I kin fetch my horn out,' sez she.

Who acts: I, ef · What happens: not pull, say, come, reckin, be · To what, where: Cow, en ketch holt · 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 (I, ef), 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

nsubjauxadvmodxcomppunctpunctconjobjpunctpunctccnsubjnsubjauxconjamodcompoundobjcasenmod:possoblpunctapposflatpunctpunctparataxisobjpunctpunctnsubjoblauxcopnsubjmarkparataxisnmod:possobjcompound:prtpunctpunctconjobjpunctrootIPRONcaAUXn'tPARTpullVERBlooseADJ,PUNCT'PUNCTsezVERBshePRON,PUNCT'PUNCTbutCCONJefNOUNyouPRON'llAUXcomeVERBenADJketchNOUNholtNOUNerADPmyPRONtailNOUN,PUNCTBrerPROPNRabbitPROPN,PUNCT'PUNCTsezVERBshePRON,PUNCT'PUNCTIPRONreckinNOUNmayAUXbeAUXIPRONkinPARTfetchVERBmyPRONhornNOUNoutADP,PUNCT'PUNCTsezVERBshePRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 pullnsubj
2cacanAUXVerbForm=Fin4 pullaux
3n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg4 pulladvmod
4pullpullVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5looselooseADJDegree=Pos4 pullxcomp
6,,PUNCT_8 sezpunct
7''PUNCT_8 sezpunct
8sezsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 pullconj
9sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 sezobj
10,,PUNCT_8 sezpunct
11''PUNCT_8 sezpunct
12butbutCCONJ_16 comecc
13efefNOUNNumber=Sing16 comensubj
14youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs16 comensubj
15'llwillAUXVerbForm=Fin16 comeaux
16comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf4 pullconj
17enenADJDegree=Pos19 holtamod
18ketchketchNOUNNumber=Sing19 holtcompound
19holtholtNOUNNumber=Sing16 comeobj
20ererADP_22 tailcase
21mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 tailnmod:poss
22tailtailNOUNNumber=Sing16 comeobl
23,,PUNCT_24 Brerpunct
24BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing22 tailappos
25RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing24 Brerflat
26,,PUNCT_28 sezpunct
27''PUNCT_28 sezpunct
28sezsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 pullparataxis
29sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 sezobj
30,,PUNCT_38 fetchpunct
31''PUNCT_33 reckinpunct
32IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs33 reckinnsubj
33reckinreckinNOUNNumber=Sing38 fetchobl
34maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin38 fetchaux
35bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf38 fetchcop
36IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs38 fetchnsubj
37kinkinPART_38 fetchmark
38fetchfetchVERBVerbForm=Inf28 sezparataxis
39mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs40 hornnmod:poss
40hornhornNOUNNumber=Sing38 fetchobj
41outoutADP_38 fetchcompound:prt
42,,PUNCT_44 sezpunct
43''PUNCT_44 sezpunct
44sezsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 sezconj
45sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs44 sezobj
46..PUNCT_4 pullpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not pullcanIloose propertyvn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2say speech: assertpresentI not said hereCowvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3comefutureefen ketch holter my tailvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location holt=Theme
4say speech: assertpresentCowvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
5reckinItree rules
6ismayIfetch propertytree rules
7say speech: assertpresentCowvn 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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