Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 6

I eat um pea, I pick um pea.

Who acts: I · What happens: eat, pick · To what, where: um pea

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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:1136): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pea	compound
4	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pick	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 pick	nsubj
7	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	parataxis
8	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pea	compound
9	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pick	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	I	um pea					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Patient
2	pick	present	I	um pea					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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