Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 37
"'Brer B'ar, I speck I got some bizness cut out fer you,' sezee.
Who acts: Rabbit up'n · What happens: speck, get, cut out · To what, where: Brer, bizness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of 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 (Rabbit up'n), 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 | _ | 7 speck | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Brer | punct |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 speck | obl |
| 4 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Brer | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 speck | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 speck | nsubj |
| 7 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 speck | ccomp |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 bizness | det |
| 11 | bizness | bizness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 fer | amod |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 cut | compound:prt |
| 14 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bizness | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 got | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sezee | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 sezee | punct |
| 18 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 speck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speck in a quote | present | Rabbit up'n = up'n | Brer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | Rabbit up'n = up'n | some bizness and cut fer | sezee obl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent bizness=Beneficiary you=Theme | |||
| 3 | cut out in a quote | participle | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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