Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 28
"Sorter splimmy-splammy, honey--sorter like he in a crowd--sorter like his ole 'oman ain't dead ez she mout be.
Who acts: she mout · What happens: ez, be · 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 (she mout), 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 splammy | punct |
| 2 | Sorter | Sorter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 splammy | compound |
| 3 | splimmy | splimmy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 splammy | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 splimmy | punct |
| 5 | splammy | splammy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 honey | punct |
| 7 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 splammy | conj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 sorter | punct |
| 9 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 splammy | conj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 he | case |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sorter | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 crowd | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 crowd | det |
| 14 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 splammy | nmod |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 sorter | punct |
| 16 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 splammy | conj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 ai | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ai | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ai | amod |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 ole | punct |
| 21 | oman | oman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ai | compound |
| 22 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sorter | nmod |
| 23 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 dead | advmod |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ai | amod |
| 25 | ez | ez | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 dead | parataxis |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 mout | compound |
| 27 | mout | mout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 be | nsubj |
| 28 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ez | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 splammy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ez in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | be in a quote | infinitive | she mout | 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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