Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 30
"'I kotch a han'ful er hard sense, Brer Rabbit,' sezee.
Who acts: Hunter · What happens: kotch · To what, where: han'ful er hard sense
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 (Hunter), 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 | _ | 4 kotch | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 kotch | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 kotch | nsubj |
| 4 | kotch | kotch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sense | det |
| 6 | han'ful | han'ful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sense | amod |
| 7 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sense | compound |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sense | amod |
| 9 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kotch | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Brer | punct |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sense | appos |
| 12 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sezee | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 sezee | punct |
| 15 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kotch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kotch in a quote | present | Hunter | a han'ful er hard sense | 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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