Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 58
Dey er marked--dat's w'at dey is--dey er marked."
Who acts: w'at dey · What happens: mark, be · To what, where: Dey er
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 (w'at dey), 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 | Dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 er | compound |
| 2 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 er | acl |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 er | punct |
| 5 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 dat | case |
| 7 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dey | compound |
| 8 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 er | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 er | cop |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 11 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 er | compound |
| 12 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 er | appos |
| 13 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 er | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 marked | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 er | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | participle | Dey er not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | dat's w'at dey | dey er | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mark | participle | dey er not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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