Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 25
"'I'm oblije ter you, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but I'm fear'd she's done gone by now,' en dat sorter make Brer Fox en Brer Possum feel in mo'nin' wid Brer Rabbit.
Who acts: Present'y, oblije, Fox, dat sorter, Brer, mo'nin · What happens: be, say, fear, do, go, make · To what, where: Brer, en, Brer Rabbit · 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, oblije, Fox, dat sorter), 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 | _ | 5 oblije | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 oblije | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 oblije | nsubj |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 oblije | cop |
| 5 | oblije | oblije | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sez | nsubj |
| 6 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 oblije | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fox | punct |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fox | compound |
| 10 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 oblije | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 oblije | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 oblije | punct |
| 13 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | obj |
| 15 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sezee | punct |
| 17 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sezee | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 sezee | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 fear | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 fear | nsubj |
| 22 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 fear | aux |
| 23 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 gone | advcl |
| 24 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 gone | aux |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 gone | nsubj |
| 26 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 gone | aux |
| 27 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 gone | advcl |
| 28 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 sez | parataxis |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 now | case |
| 30 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 gone | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sorter | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 sorter | punct |
| 33 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dat | compound |
| 34 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sorter | compound |
| 35 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | nsubj |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sez | parataxis |
| 37 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 make | obj |
| 38 | Fox | fox | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 make | xcomp |
| 39 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Fox | obj |
| 40 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 feel | nsubj |
| 41 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Brer | flat |
| 42 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 Fox | parataxis |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 mo'nin | case |
| 44 | mo'nin | mo'nin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 feel | obl |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 wid | punct |
| 46 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 mo'nin | acl:relcl |
| 47 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Rabbit | compound |
| 48 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 wid | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Present'y | ter you; oblije property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | oblije and Brer Fox | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fear in a quote | present | Present'y | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | participle | Fox not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | would · passive | Fox | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by now=Location | |||||
| 6 | make in a quote | present | dat sorter | Brer | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fox in a quote | infinitive | Brer not said here | en | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus en=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | feel in a quote | present | Brer | in mo'nin | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in mo'nin=Attribute | ||||
| 9 | wi in a quote | past | mo'nin not said here | Brer Rabbit | 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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