Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 60
"'Howdy, Brer Big-Eyes,' sez Miss Cow, sez she. '
Who acts: Howdy · What happens: say · To what, where: Brer · 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 (Howdy), 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 | _ | 15 sez | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Howdy | punct |
| 3 | Howdy | Howdy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sez | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Brer | punct |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Howdy | appos |
| 6 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Eyes | punct |
| 8 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Brer | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Cow | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Cow | punct |
| 11 | sez | sez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Cow | amod |
| 12 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Cow | compound |
| 13 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Howdy | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sez | punct |
| 15 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sez | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sez | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Howdy | Brer | 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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