Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 48

"Den Miss Meadows en de gals, dey holler and laff fit ter kill deyse'f, en ole Brer Tarrypin, he raise up fum behime de pos' en sez, sezee:

Who acts: Den Meadows en, ter, en · What happens: fit, kill, raise up, say · To what, where: deyse'f, de pos · 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 (Den Meadows en, ter, en), 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	_	2 Den	punct
2	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 en	compound
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Meadows	compound
4	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 en	compound
5	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fit	nsubj
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	5 en	flat:foreign
7	gals	gal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fit	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 holler	punct
9	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holler	compound
10	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gals	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 laff	cc
12	laff	laff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holler	conj
13	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 kill	nsubj
15	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fit	ccomp
16	deyse'f	deyse'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kill	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ole	punct
18	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ole	compound
19	ole	ole	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 deyse'f	appos
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 ole	appos
21	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Brer	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 raise	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 raise	nsubj
24	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fit	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 raise	compound:prt
26	fum	fum	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 de	compound
27	behime	behime	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 de	compound
28	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pos	compound
29	pos	pos	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 raise	obj
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 sez	punct
31	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sez	nsubj
32	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 pos	acl:relcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sezee	punct
34	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pos	conj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 fit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fit in a quote	present	Den Meadows en		tree rules
2	kill in a quote	present	ter	deyse'f	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deyse'f=Theme
3	raise up in a quote	infinitive	en	de pos and sezee	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pos=Theme
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	en	de pos and sezee not said here	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pos=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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