Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 52

He seem like he dead, yit he mayn't be,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. '

Who acts: Wolf · What happens: seem, say · To what, where: yit, Brer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seem	nsubj
2	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 dead	case
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seem	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 yit	punct
7	yit	yit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seem	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 be	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 be	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 be	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 yit	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sez	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 sez	punct
14	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 seem	parataxis
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 sez	obj
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Brer	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sezee	punct
18	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Brer	appos
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sez	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 sez	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present	Wolf	yit				like dead	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present		Brer					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=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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