Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 6

Present'y he say ter hisse'f dat he bleedzd ter have a nip at dat butter, en den he lay his plans, he did.

Who acts: Present'y, ter, nip · What happens: say, bleedz, have, lie, do, plan · To what, where: ter hisse'f dat, en den · 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 (Present'y, ter, nip), 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	Present'y	Present'y	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 say	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ter	ter	X	_	6 dat	compound
5	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dat	compound
6	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bleedzd	nsubj
8	bleedzd	bleedz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dat	acl:relcl
9	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 nip	det
12	nip	nip	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	nsubj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 butter	case
14	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 butter	compound
15	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nip	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 den	punct
17	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 den	compound
18	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lay	nsubj
20	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 have	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 plans	nmod:poss
22	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lay	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 did	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 did	nsubj
25	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lay	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	Present'y	ter hisse'f dat	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dat=Topic
2	bleedz	past	Present'y	ter hisse'f dat not said here	tree rules
3	have	present	ter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	lie	past	a nip at dat butter	en den	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plan=Theme
5	do	past	ter		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	plan		ter		nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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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