Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 35
"'W'at de matter now, Brer Possum?' sezee.
What happens: matter · To what, where: W'at
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: 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 matter | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 W'at | punct |
| 3 | W'at | W'at | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 matter | obl |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 W'at | flat:foreign |
| 5 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 matter | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Possum | punct |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Possum | compound |
| 9 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 matter | vocative |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 12 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 matter | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter in a quote | present | W'at | now | Brer Possum vocative; sezee obl:unmarked | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=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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