Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 5
"'Dat look cool,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en cool I speck she is.
Who acts: I, Brer · What happens: look, say, speck, be · To what, where: 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, Brer), 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 look | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 3 | Dat | that | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 look | advmod |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sez | csubj |
| 5 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 look | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 8 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sez | obj |
| 10 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Brer | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sezee | punct |
| 12 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Brer | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cool | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 cool | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cool | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sez | advcl |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 speck | nsubj |
| 18 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cool | ccomp |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 is | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 speck | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | cool property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | |||||
| 3 | speck in a quote | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | Brer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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