Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 10
"Brer Rabbit ain't see no peace w'atsumever.
Who acts: Brer Rabbit · What happens: not be
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer Rabbit), 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 | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rabbit | compound |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 see | nsubj |
| 4 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Vrnc Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | cop |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 see | advmod |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 peace | det |
| 8 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | w'atsumever | w'atsumever | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 see | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | Brer Rabbit | see property | tree rules |
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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