Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 43
"'You run en hide, Brer Wolf,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en I'll stay yer en take keer er de cow twel you gits back,' sezee.
Who acts: You, en, er · What happens: run, say, stay, take, twel · To what, where: en hide, Brer, en, keer · 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 (You, en, er), 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 | _ | 4 run | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
| 3 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 run | nsubj |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hide | compound |
| 6 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 run | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Brer | punct |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hide | appos |
| 9 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Brer | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sez | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 sez | punct |
| 12 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | parataxis |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sez | obj |
| 14 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Brer | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sezee | punct |
| 16 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Brer | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stay | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 en | punct |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stay | nsubj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 stay | nsubj |
| 21 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 stay | aux |
| 22 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sez | conj |
| 23 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 en | nmod:poss |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stay | obj |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 stay | conj |
| 26 | keer | keer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obj |
| 27 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 30 twel | nsubj |
| 28 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 27 er | flat:foreign |
| 29 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 twel | compound |
| 30 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | parataxis |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 back | nsubj |
| 32 | gits | git | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 twel | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sezee | punct |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 sezee | punct |
| 36 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 twel | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | present | You | en hide | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hide=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay in a quote | future | en | yer's en | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme en=Location | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | en not said here | keer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keer=Theme | ||||
| 5 | twel in a quote | er | 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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