Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 22

"Dreckly Brer Rabbit hear um callin' 'im ag'in en off he goes, en dis time, bless yo' soul, he gits de butter out so clean dat he kin see hisse'f in de bottom er de bucket.

Who acts: Dreckly · What happens: hear, go, bless out, git, kin, see · To what, where: Dreckly, yo soul, clean dat, hisse'f, de bottom er

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 (Dreckly), 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	_	2 Dreckly	punct
2	Dreckly	Dreckly	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obl
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Dreckly	flat
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Dreckly	flat
5	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 callin	compound
7	callin	callin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 en	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 en	punct
10	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 en	amod
11	ag'in	ag'in	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 en	compound
12	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 callin	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	15 goes	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 goes	nsubj
15	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 time	punct
17	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dis	compound
18	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 time	compound
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 goes	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bless	punct
21	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hear	conj
22	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 soul	compound
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 yo	punct
24	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bless	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gits	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gits	nsubj
27	gits	git	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 butter	nmod:poss
28	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	27 gits	conj
29	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bless	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	21 bless	compound:prt
31	so	so	SCONJ	_	33 dat	case
32	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dat	amod
33	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bless	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 kin	nsubj
35	kin	kin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 dat	acl:relcl
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 kin	xcomp
37	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 see	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 er	case
39	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 er	amod
40	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 er	compound
41	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 see	obl
42	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	43 bucket	compound
43	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 er	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	present		Dreckly				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer callin=Stimulus
2	go in a quote	present	Dreckly			time		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bless out in a quote	infinitive		yo soul			so clean dat	tree rules
4	git in a quote		Dreckly					tree rules
5	kin in a quote	past	Dreckly	clean dat not said here				tree rules
6	see in a quote	infinitive	Dreckly not said here	hisse'f	de bottom er and de bucket			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hisse'f=Stimulus

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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