Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 32
"'Is dey many un um down dar, Brer Rabbit?' sez Brer Fox, sezee.
Who acts: dey, many un um · What happens: be, um, say · To what, where: dey, Brer Fox · 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 (dey, many un um), 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 | _ | 7 um | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 dey | punct |
| 3 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dey | cop |
| 4 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 um | nsubj |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 um | amod |
| 6 | un | un | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 um | compound |
| 7 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sez | nsubj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 dar | case |
| 9 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 um | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Brer | punct |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 um | appos |
| 12 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | flat |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 Brer | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Brer | punct |
| 15 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Fox | compound |
| 17 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sez | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sezee | punct |
| 19 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Fox | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | dey | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | um in a quote | dey | down dar | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | many un um | Brer Fox and sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=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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