Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 17
I feard ter take 'im home,' sezee.
Who acts: I, ter · What happens: fear, take · To what, where: im home · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, ter), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 feard | nsubj |
| 2 | feard | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | nsubj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 feard | ccomp |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 home | punct |
| 6 | im | im | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 home | amod |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sezee | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 sezee | punct |
| 10 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 home | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | I | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take | present | ter | im home and sezee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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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