Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 34

Den dey hear de little bird singin', en dish yer's de song w'at he sing:

Who acts: Den dey, little bird singin, dey · What happens: hear, dish, sing

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 (Den dey, little bird singin, dey), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dey	compound
2	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	de	de	ADV	_	3 hear	advmod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 singin	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 singin	compound
7	singin	singin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dish	nsubj
8	',	',	PART	_	7 singin	dep
9	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dish	compound
10	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	parataxis
11	yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 dish	nmod
12	's	's	PART	_	11 yer	case
13	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 w'at	amod
14	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 w'at	compound
15	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yer	appos
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sing	nsubj
17	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 w'at	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hear	present	Den dey		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	dish		little bird singin	's yer	tree rules
3	sing speech: express		dey		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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