Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 45

Brer B'ar, he 'low dat he can hear de bees a zoonin'.

Who acts: Brer · What happens: hear

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 (Brer), 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	10 hear	vocative
2	B'ar	B'ar	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	10 hear	nsubj
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 hear	punct
6	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dat	amod
7	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hear	nsubj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hear	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hear	aux
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	de	de	ADP	_	12 bees	case
12	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hear	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 zoonin	det
14	zoonin	zoonin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bees	appos
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 zoonin	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	can	Brer					de bees; Brer vocative	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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