Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 38
"'You better Stay en take a snack wid me, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. '
Who acts: You, snack · What happens: stay, take, wi, say · To what, where: en, dey, Brer · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, snack), 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 | _ | 5 Stay | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Stay | punct |
| 3 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 Stay | nsubj |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 You | xcomp |
| 5 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Stay | obj |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Stay | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 snack | det |
| 9 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wid | nsubj |
| 10 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | obj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 wid | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Fox | punct |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Fox | compound |
| 14 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Stay | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sez | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 sez | punct |
| 17 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Stay | advcl |
| 18 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sez | obj |
| 19 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Brer | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sezee | punct |
| 21 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Brer | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Stay | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | infinitive | You | en | Brer Fox obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wi in a quote | past | a snack | dey | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | You not said here | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=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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