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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pull | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pull | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 pull | advmod |
| 4 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pull | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sez | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sez | punct |
| 8 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pull | conj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sez | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sez | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sez | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 come | cc |
| 13 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | nsubj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pull | conj |
| 17 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 holt | amod |
| 18 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 holt | compound |
| 19 | holt | holt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obj |
| 20 | er | er | ADP | _ | 22 tail | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tail | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Brer | punct |
| 24 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 tail | appos |
| 25 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Brer | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sez | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 sez | punct |
| 28 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pull | parataxis |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sez | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fetch | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 reckin | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 reckin | nsubj |
| 33 | reckin | reckin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fetch | obl |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 fetch | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 fetch | cop |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 fetch | nsubj |
| 37 | kin | kin | PART | _ | 38 fetch | mark |
| 38 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 sez | parataxis |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 horn | nmod:poss |
| 40 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fetch | obj |
| 41 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 fetch | compound:prt |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sez | punct |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 sez | punct |
| 44 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 sez | conj |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 sez | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pull | can | I | loose property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | I not said here | Cow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come | future | ef | en ketch holt | er my tail | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location holt=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Cow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 5 | reckin | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | is | may | I | fetch property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | present | Cow | vn 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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