Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 29
Oh, I'm des a fishin', Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. '
Who acts: I · What happens: des, say · To what, where: fishin Brer Fox, Brer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 des | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 des | nsubj |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 des | aux |
| 5 | des | des | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 sez | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fishin | det |
| 7 | fishin | fishin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Fox | compound |
| 8 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 7 fishin | dep |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fox | compound |
| 10 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 des | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
| 13 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | obj |
| 15 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sezee | punct |
| 17 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | present · progressive | I | fishin Brer Fox | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |
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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