Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 35
Come down en he'p me haul um in, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
What happens: come down, haul, say · To what, where: Come en he'p, 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: 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 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 he'p | compound |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 he'p | compound |
| 4 | he'p | he'p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 haul | obl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 he'p | obj |
| 6 | haul | haul | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 haul | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 haul | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fox | punct |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Fox | compound |
| 11 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 haul | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sez | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 sez | punct |
| 14 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 haul | conj |
| 15 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sez | obj |
| 16 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Brer | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sezee | punct |
| 18 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Brer | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 haul | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | infinitive | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | haul | present | Come en he'p | Brer Fox obl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme | ||||
| 3 | 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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