Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 32
"'Brer Possum, you run down ter de spring en fetch de butter, en I'll sail 'roun' yer en set de table,' sezee.
Who acts: you, Uncle Remus, roun · What happens: run down, sail, table · To what, where: ter, 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 (you, Uncle Remus, roun), 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 Possum | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Possum | punct |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Possum | compound |
| 4 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 run | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 run | nsubj |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Possum | acl:relcl |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 run | compound:prt |
| 9 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 run | obj |
| 10 | de | de | ADP | _ | 13 fetch | case |
| 11 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fetch | compound |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fetch | compound |
| 13 | fetch | fetch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 run | obl |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 butter | compound |
| 15 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fetch | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 en | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fetch | conj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 sail | nsubj |
| 19 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 sail | aux |
| 20 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 en | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 roun | punct |
| 22 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 table | nsubj |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 roun | punct |
| 24 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 table | amod |
| 25 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 table | nsubj |
| 26 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 table | compound |
| 27 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 table | compound |
| 28 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sail | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sezee | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 sezee | punct |
| 31 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 table | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Possum | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down in a quote | present | you | ter | de spring en fetch and de butter and en | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ter=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sail in a quote | future | Uncle Remus = remus | en not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme | ||||
| 3 | table in a quote | roun | 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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