Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 9

Brer Rabbit, he say he de swiffes'; but Brer Tarrypin, he rock long in de cheer en watch de 'lasses.

Who acts: Brer, dey · What happens: say, de, rock · To what, where: swiffes · 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 (Brer, dey), 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	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brer	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Brer	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 de	nsubj
7	de	de	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
8	swiffes	swiffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 de	obj
9	'	's	PART	_	8 swiffes	case
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 long	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 long	cc
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Tarrypin	compound
13	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 long	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rock	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rock	nsubj
16	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Tarrypin	appos
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	23 de	case
19	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 de	amod
20	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 en	compound
21	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 watch	compound
22	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 de	compound
23	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 long	obl
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 de	punct
25	lasses	lass	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 de	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Brer		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	de	past	dey	swiffes	tree rules
3	rock		dey		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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