Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 13
"'I hear my chilluns callin' me,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en I hatter go see w'at dey want.
Who acts: Present'y, see w'at dey · What happens: hear, say, go, want · To what, where: chilluns callin, Brer, en · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Present'y, see w'at dey), 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 hear | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 callin | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chilluns | chillun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 callin | compound |
| 7 | callin | callin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hear | obj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sez | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 sez | punct |
| 12 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | parataxis |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sez | obj |
| 14 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Brer | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sezee | punct |
| 16 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Brer | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 en | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 en | punct |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sez | conj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 21 | hatter | hatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | nsubj |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 en | acl:relcl |
| 23 | see | see | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 dey | amod |
| 24 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dey | compound |
| 25 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 want | nsubj |
| 26 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present | Present'y | my chilluns callin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | Present'y | en not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present | see w'at dey | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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