Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 21
"'I been ter see my ole 'oman, en she's a sinkin',' sezee.
Who acts: Present'y, oman · What happens: be, see · To what, where: ter, ole
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, oman), 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 | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 ter | cop |
| 5 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | compound |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ole | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 10 | oman | oman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sinkin | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 oman | conj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sinkin | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sinkin | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sinkin | det |
| 16 | sinkin | sinkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | parataxis |
| 17 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 16 sinkin | dep |
| 18 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 16 sinkin | case |
| 19 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sinkin | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | participle | ter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | Present'y | my ole | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ole=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | oman and en | 's a sinkin and sezee | tree rules |
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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