Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 9

Brer Rabbit say he could er kotch 'im hisse'f but he didn't keer 'bout leavin' de ladies.

Who acts: Brer · What happens: say, er, not keer · To what, where: kotch im hisse'f · 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 (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	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 say	nsubj
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 er	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 er	aux
6	er	er	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
7	kotch	kotch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hisse'f	compound
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 kotch	punct
9	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hisse'f	amod
10	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 er	obj
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 keer	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 keer	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 keer	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 keer	advmod
15	keer	keer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 er	conj
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 keer	punct
17	bout	bout	ADP	_	18 leavin	case
18	leavin	leavin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 keer	obl
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 leavin	punct
20	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	21 ladies	nmod
21	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 leavin	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Brer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	er	could	Brer	kotch im hisse'f		tree rules
3	not keer	past · do-support	Brer		bout leavin ladies de	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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