Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 49
"'Ef you'll gimme time fer ter ketch my breff, gents en ladies, one en all, I speck I'll finger dat money myse'f,' sezee, en sho nuff, Brer Tarrypin tie de pu's 'roun' his neck en skaddle*1 off home."
Who acts: gents, fus, Brer · What happens: lady, speck, myse'f, tie · To what, where: de pu · 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 (gents, fus, Brer), 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 | _ | 10 ketch | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ef | punct |
| 3 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ketch | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 ketch | nsubj |
| 5 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 ketch | aux |
| 6 | gimme | gimme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ketch | compound |
| 8 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ter | compound |
| 9 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ketch | compound |
| 10 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 breff | nmod:poss |
| 12 | breff | breff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ketch | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ladies | punct |
| 14 | gents | gent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ladies | nsubj |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ladies | compound |
| 16 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ketch | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 en | punct |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 en | nummod |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ketch | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 ketch | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 speck | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 speck | nsubj |
| 23 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ketch | conj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 myse'f | nsubj |
| 25 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 myse'f | aux |
| 26 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dat | compound |
| 27 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 myse'f | compound |
| 28 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 myse'f | compound |
| 29 | myse'f | myse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 speck | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sezee | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 sezee | punct |
| 32 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 myse'f | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 en | punct |
| 34 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 myse'f | conj |
| 35 | sho | sho | X | _ | 36 nuff | compound |
| 36 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Brer | punct |
| 38 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 tie | nsubj |
| 39 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Brer | flat |
| 40 | tie | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 en | acl:relcl |
| 41 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 42 pu | compound |
| 42 | pu | pu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tie | obj |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 pu | case |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 roun | punct |
| 45 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 1 | nsubj |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 roun | punct |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 skaddle | nmod:poss |
| 48 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 en | compound |
| 49 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 skaddle | compound |
| 50 | skaddle | skaddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 1 | nsubj |
| 51 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 52 1 | punct |
| 52 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 pu | acl:relcl |
| 53 | off | off | ADP | _ | 54 home | case |
| 54 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 1 | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ketch | punct |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ketch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lady in a quote | gents | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | speck in a quote | present | fus | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | myse'f in a quote | future | fus | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tie in a quote | present | Brer sho nuff | de pu | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pu=Patient |
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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