Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 56
You do de pullin', Sis Cow,' sezee, en I'll do de gruntin,' sezee.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: do · To what, where: de pullin, de gruntin
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, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 do | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 pullin | compound |
| 4 | pullin | pullin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 do | obj |
| 5 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 4 pullin | dep |
| 6 | Sis | Sis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pullin | appos |
| 7 | Cow | Cow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sis | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sezee | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 sezee | punct |
| 10 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Sis | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pullin | conj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 en | acl:relcl |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 gruntin | compound |
| 17 | gruntin | gruntin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sezee | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 sezee | punct |
| 20 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gruntin | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | You | de pullin and en | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pullin=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do | future | I | de gruntin and sezee | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gruntin=Eventuality |
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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