Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 62
"'He des dis minit pass,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en he look mighty sick,' sezee.
Who acts: gwine, dis minit pass, en · What happens: pass, say, look · To what, where: Brer, sezee · 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 (gwine, dis minit pass, en), 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 | _ | 10 sez | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 pass | punct |
| 3 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pass | nsubj |
| 4 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pass | det |
| 5 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pass | compound |
| 6 | minit | minit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pass | compound |
| 7 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sez | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pass | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 pass | punct |
| 10 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sez | obj |
| 12 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sezee | punct |
| 14 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 look | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 look | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 look | nsubj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 look | nsubj |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sez | parataxis |
| 20 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sick | amod |
| 21 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 look | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sezee | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 sezee | punct |
| 24 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 look | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass in a quote | gwine | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | des dis minit pass | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | en | sezee | sick property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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