Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 16
"'Yer! you young Rabs dar, sail 'roun' yer en broke me a piece er dat sweetnin'-tree,' sezee, en den he koff.
Who acts: Yer, young Rabs dar, er dat sweetnin, sweetnin · What happens: dar, break, tree, koff · To what, where: Uncle Remus
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yer, young Rabs dar, er dat sweetnin, sweetnin), 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 | _ | 8 dar | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yer | punct |
| 3 | Yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 dar | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yer | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 dar | nsubj |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dar | amod |
| 7 | Rabs | Rabs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dar | compound |
| 8 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broke | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sail | punct |
| 10 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dar | conj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 roun | punct |
| 12 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sail | appos |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 roun | punct |
| 14 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 en | nmod:poss |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broke | nsubj |
| 16 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 broke | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sweetnin | det |
| 19 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 er | compound |
| 20 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sweetnin | compound |
| 21 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sweetnin | compound |
| 22 | sweetnin | sweetnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tree | nsubj |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 sweetnin | punct |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 tree | punct |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broke | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sezee | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 sezee | punct |
| 28 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tree | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 den | punct |
| 30 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 den | compound |
| 31 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tree | conj |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 koff | nsubj |
| 33 | koff | koff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 den | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dar in a quote | Yer | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | break in a quote | past | young Rabs dar and sail | Uncle Remus = remus | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tree in a quote | a er dat sweetnin | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | koff in a quote | sweetnin | 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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