Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 25
Oh, do please save me, Brer Rabbit!
Who acts: you · What happens: save · To what, where: me
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 (you), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 save | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 save | aux |
| 4 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 5 save | discourse |
| 5 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 save | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rabbit | punct |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rabbit | compound |
| 9 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 save | vocative |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | imperative · do-support | you not said here | me | Brer Rabbit vocative | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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