Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 17
"'Gimme a good strong rope,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'en lemme git in er puddle er water, en den let Brer B'ar see ef he kin pull me out,' sezee.
Who acts: good strong rope, en den, lemme git, den · What happens: say, let, see, kin, pull out · To what, where: Gimme, Brer, ef, one eye · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good strong rope, en den, lemme git, den), 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 | _ | 3 Gimme | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Gimme | punct |
| 3 | Gimme | Gimme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sez | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rope | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rope | amod |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rope | amod |
| 7 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sez | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rope | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 rope | punct |
| 10 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sez | obj |
| 12 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sezee | punct |
| 14 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 git | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 git | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lemme | compound |
| 18 | lemme | lemme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 git | compound |
| 19 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 see | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 puddle | case |
| 21 | er | e | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 puddle | amod |
| 22 | puddle | puddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 git | nmod |
| 23 | er | e | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 water | amod |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 puddle | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 den | punct |
| 26 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 den | compound |
| 27 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 let | nsubj |
| 28 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 git | acl:relcl |
| 29 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 let | obj |
| 30 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Brer | flat |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sez | parataxis |
| 32 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 see | obj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 kin | nsubj |
| 34 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 ef | acl:relcl |
| 35 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 kin | xcomp |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 pull | obj |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 pull | compound:prt |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sezee | punct |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 sezee | punct |
| 40 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pull | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | a good strong rope | Gimme | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | past | en den | Brer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | lemme git in er puddle and er water | ef | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ef=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | kin in a quote | past | den | ef not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pull out in a quote | infinitive | den not said here | one eye and en = eye | sezee obl | 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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