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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

punctpunctobldetamodamodnsubjpunctpunctobjflatpunctappospunctpunctcompoundcompoundnsubjcaseamodnmodamodconjpunctcompoundnsubjacl:relclobjflatparataxisobjnsubjacl:relclxcompobjcompound:prtpunctpunctoblpunctroot"PUNCT'PUNCTGimmePROPNaDETgoodADJstrongADJropeNOUN,PUNCT'PUNCTsezVERBBrerPROPNTarrypinPROPN,PUNCTsezeeNOUN,PUNCT'PUNCTenNOUNlemmeNOUNgitNOUNinADPerADJpuddleNOUNerADJwaterNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNdenNOUNletVERBBrerPROPNB'arPROPNseeVERBefNOUNhePRONkinVERBpullVERBmePRONoutADP,PUNCT'PUNCTsezeeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_3 Gimmepunct
2''PUNCT_3 Gimmepunct
3GimmeGimmePROPNNumber=Sing10 sezobl
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 ropedet
5goodgoodADJDegree=Pos7 ropeamod
6strongstrongADJDegree=Pos7 ropeamod
7roperopeNOUNNumber=Sing10 seznsubj
8,,PUNCT_7 ropepunct
9''PUNCT_7 ropepunct
10sezsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
11BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing10 sezobj
12TarrypinTarrypinPROPNNumber=Sing11 Brerflat
13,,PUNCT_14 sezeepunct
14sezeesezeeNOUNNumber=Sing11 Brerappos
15,,PUNCT_19 gitpunct
16''PUNCT_19 gitpunct
17enenNOUNNumber=Sing18 lemmecompound
18lemmelemmeNOUNNumber=Sing19 gitcompound
19gitgitNOUNNumber=Sing31 seensubj
20ininADP_22 puddlecase
21ereADJDegree=Cmp22 puddleamod
22puddlepuddleNOUNNumber=Sing19 gitnmod
23ereADJDegree=Cmp24 wateramod
24waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing22 puddleconj
25,,PUNCT_27 denpunct
26enenNOUNNumber=Sing27 dencompound
27dendenNOUNNumber=Sing28 letnsubj
28letletVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 gitacl:relcl
29BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing28 letobj
30B'arB'arPROPNNumber=Sing29 Brerflat
31seeseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 sezparataxis
32efefNOUNNumber=Sing31 seeobj
33hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 kinnsubj
34kinkinVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 efacl:relcl
35pullpullVERBVerbForm=Inf34 kinxcomp
36meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs35 pullobj
37outoutADP_35 pullcompound:prt
38,,PUNCT_40 sezeepunct
39''PUNCT_40 sezeepunct
40sezeesezeeNOUNNumber=Sing35 pullobl
41..PUNCT_10 sezpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assert in a quotepresenta good strong ropeGimmevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic
2let in a quotepasten denBrervn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brer=Theme
3see in a quotepresentlemme git in er puddle and er waterefvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ef=Stimulus
4kin in a quotepastdenef not said heretree rules
5pull out in a quoteinfinitiveden not said hereone eye and en = eyesezee obltree 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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