Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 39
"'Yer I come a bilin',' sez de Tarrypin, sezee.
Who acts: Yer, ' · What happens: come, say · To what, where: bilin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yer, '), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yer | punct |
| 3 | Yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bilin | det |
| 7 | bilin | bilin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obj |
| 8 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 7 bilin | dep |
| 9 | ' | ' | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sez | nsubj |
| 10 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bilin | acl:relcl |
| 11 | de | de | ADP | _ | 12 Tarrypin | case |
| 12 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sez | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sezee | punct |
| 14 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Tarrypin | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | Yer | a bilin | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bilin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | ' | a bilin not said here | de Tarrypin and sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bilin=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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