Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 13
"'Dish yer rabbit dead.
Who acts: you · What happens: dish · To what, where: rabbit
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game. 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dish | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dish | punct |
| 3 | Dish | dish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 rabbit | nmod:poss |
| 5 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Dish | obj |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Dish | xcomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dish in a quote | imperative | you not said here | yer's rabbit | dead 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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