Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 36

Brer Rabbit, he dunno nuthin' tall 'bout no fishes.

Who acts: Brer · What happens: nuthin

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. 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	root	root
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nuthin	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nuthin	nsubj
5	dunno	dunno	X	_	6 nuthin	compound
6	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	appos
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 tall	punct
8	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nuthin	amod
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 tall	punct
10	bout	bout	ADP	_	12 fishes	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 fishes	det
12	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tall	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Brer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nuthin		Brer						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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