Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 39
Brer Rabbit, he say dat if Brer Wolf b'leeve he got de fishes, den he give Brer Wolf lief fer ter kill de bes' cow he got.
Who acts: Brer, Wolf b'leeve, den · What happens: say, get, give · To what, where: dat, de fishes, fer ter kill, cow · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Wolf b'leeve, den), 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 | 5 say | nsubj |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brer | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 got | mark |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Wolf | compound |
| 9 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 b'leeve | compound |
| 10 | b'leeve | b'leeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | nsubj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 13 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fishes | amod |
| 14 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 got | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 16 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | conj |
| 19 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Wolf | compound |
| 20 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 lief | compound |
| 21 | lief | lief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fer | nmod:desc |
| 22 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 kill | amod |
| 23 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kill | compound |
| 24 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 25 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 kill | flat:foreign |
| 26 | bes | be | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 cow | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 26 bes | case |
| 28 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 got | nsubj |
| 30 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 cow | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Brer | dat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get a condition, not said to happen | past | Wolf b'leeve | de fishes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give | past | den | fer ter kill | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kill=Recipient cow=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | past | Brer | bes's cow not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus |
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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