Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 28
"'What you kill de udder day, Brer Fox?' sezee.
Who acts: you · What happens: kill · To what, where: sezee
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 | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 3 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 kill | obj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | nsubj |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 day | amod |
| 7 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | compound |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kill | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fox | punct |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Fox | compound |
| 11 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 14 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kill | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | present | you | sezee | day | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer sezee=Result |
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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