Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 8
W'at I tell you?" he exclaimed as if addressing a witness concealed under the bed. "
Who acts: I, frown · What happens: tell, exclaim, address, conceal · To what, where: W'at, you, witness, bed · 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 (I, frown), 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 | W'at | w'at | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 tell | obj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaimed | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 addressing | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 addressing | mark |
| 11 | addressing | address | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 exclaimed | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 witness | det |
| 13 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 addressing | obj |
| 14 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 witness | acl |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 bed | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bed | det |
| 17 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 concealed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | I | W'at | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient w'at=Topic | |||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | frown | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | address in a quote | gerund | frown not said here | a witness | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Destination | ||||
| 4 | conceal in a quote | participle | a witness not said here | the bed | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent under bed=Location |
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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