Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 58
"'Dey er bitin' mighty hard, Brer Rabbit.'
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 er | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dey | punct |
| 3 | Dey | Dey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 er | compound |
| 4 | er | er | PROPN | Typo=Yes | root | root |
| 5 | bitin | bitin | X | _ | 4 er | goeswith |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 hard | punct |
| 7 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hard | amod |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bitin | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Rabbit | punct |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Rabbit | compound |
| 11 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 er | goeswith |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 er | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 er | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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