Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 36
"'You all better run yer, fokes,' sez Brer Possum, sezee. '
Who acts: You · What happens: run, say · To what, where: yer, Brer · 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), 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 | _ | 6 run | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 You | punct |
| 3 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 run | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 You | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 all | xcomp |
| 6 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 run | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fokes | punct |
| 9 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 run | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sez | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 sez | punct |
| 12 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | advcl |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sez | obj |
| 14 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Brer | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sezee | punct |
| 16 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Brer | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 run | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | infinitive | You | yer | fokes obl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yer=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | You not said here | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |
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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