Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 65

Tribbalashun seem like she's a waitin' roun' de cornder fer ter ketch one en all un us, honey."

Who acts: Tribbalashun, roun · What happens: seem, be, en

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 (Tribbalashun, 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	Tribbalashun	Tribbalashun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 seem	nsubj
2	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	7 waitin	case
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 waitin	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 waitin	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 waitin	det
7	waitin	waitin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seem	obl
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 roun	punct
9	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 en	nsubj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 roun	punct
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 ketch	compound
12	cornder	cornder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ter	compound
13	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ter	compound
14	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ketch	compound
15	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 en	compound
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 en	nummod
17	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waitin	parataxis
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 en	appos
19	un	un	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 us	reparandum
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 all	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 honey	punct
22	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 en	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 honey	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 honey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	seem	present	Tribbalashun		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Tribbalashun	like a waitin	tree rules
3	en		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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