Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 53
Den Brer Rabbit, he wink his off eye en say, sezee:
Who acts: Den, eye en · What happens: wink, say · To what, where: sezee · 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 (Den, eye en), 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wink | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Den | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wink | nsubj |
| 6 | wink | wink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 en | nmod:poss |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 his | compound:prt |
| 9 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 en | compound |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | nsubj |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wink | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sezee | punct |
| 13 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 wink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wink | infinitive | Den | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | den's eye en | sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=Topic |
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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