Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 53
Hit mighty ketchin', en you mine yo' eye, honey, dat somebody don't cheat you 'fo' yo' ha'r git gray ez de ole nigger's."
Who acts: you, somebody · What happens: hit, mine, not cheat · To what, where: ketchin en, yo eye, you
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 (you, somebody), 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 | Hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ketchin | amod |
| 3 | ketchin | ketchin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 en | compound |
| 4 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 3 ketchin | dep |
| 5 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hit | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 mine | nsubj |
| 7 | mine | mine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 en | acl:relcl |
| 8 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eye | compound |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 yo | punct |
| 10 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mine | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 honey | punct |
| 12 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eye | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cheat | punct |
| 14 | dat | dat | SCONJ | _ | 18 cheat | mark |
| 15 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 cheat | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 cheat | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 cheat | advmod |
| 18 | cheat | cheat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hit | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 cheat | obj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 cheat | punct |
| 21 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 23 yo | case |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 yo | punct |
| 23 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gray | obl |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 yo | punct |
| 25 | ha'r | ha'r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gray | compound |
| 26 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gray | compound |
| 27 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cheat | obl |
| 28 | ez | ez | X | Foreign=Yes | 29 de | flat:foreign |
| 29 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 nigger | compound |
| 30 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 nigger | amod |
| 31 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gray | appos |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 nigger | case |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hit | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | imperative | you not said here | ketchin en | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | mine | present | you | yo eye and honey | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not cheat | present · do-support | somebody | you | ha'r git gray obl | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Source |
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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