Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 25
"'W'iles we er res'n here, Brer Buzzard, en bein's you bin so good, I got sump'n fer ter tell you,' sezee. '
Who acts: W'iles, you, Dey, fer ter · What happens: res'n, bin, get, tell · To what, where: Brer, sezee, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'iles, you, Dey, fer ter), 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 | _ | 6 res'n | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 W'iles | punct |
| 3 | W'iles | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 res'n | nsubj |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 res'n | nsubj |
| 5 | er | er | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 res'n | aux |
| 6 | res'n | res'n | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 res'n | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Brer | punct |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 res'n | obj |
| 10 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Brer | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bin | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bein | compound |
| 13 | bein | bein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bin | obl |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 bein | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 bin | nsubj |
| 16 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 res'n | conj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 good | advmod |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bin | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 got | nsubj |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 res'n | parataxis |
| 22 | sump'n | sump'n | CCONJ | _ | 25 tell | cc |
| 23 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 ter | amod |
| 24 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 tell | nsubj |
| 25 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 got | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 tell | iobj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sezee | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 sezee | punct |
| 29 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tell | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 res'n | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 res'n | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | res'n in a quote | W'iles | Brer | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bin in a quote | present | you | 's en bein; good property | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | past | Dey | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | fer ter | sezee | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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