Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 34
"'Howdy, Brer Frog; is you seed Brer Rabbit go by yer?'
Who acts: Howdy, Brer · What happens: be, go · To what, where: seed
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Howdy, Brer), 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 | _ | 10 seed | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Howdy | punct |
| 3 | Howdy | Howdy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Brer | punct |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Howdy | conj |
| 6 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 Howdy | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seed | cop |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 seed | nsubj |
| 10 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | flat |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seed | acl:relcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 yer | case |
| 15 | yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 seed | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 seed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Howdy and Brer | seed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | Brer | seed not said here | by yer | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme |
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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