Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 14
Miss Meadows en de gals, dey wuz dere; en Brer Coon, en Brer Fox, en Brer Possum, en Brer Tarrypin, dey wuz dere."
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miss | miss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Meadows | compound |
| 2 | Meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 en | compound |
| 3 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gals | compound |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 gals | compound |
| 5 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dere | punct |
| 7 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wuz | compound |
| 8 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dere | compound |
| 9 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gals | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gals | conj |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 en | appos |
| 13 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Brer | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 en | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 en | conj |
| 16 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Fox | compound |
| 17 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 en | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 en | punct |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 en | conj |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 en | appos |
| 21 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Brer | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 en | punct |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 en | conj |
| 24 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 en | appos |
| 25 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Brer | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dere | punct |
| 27 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wuz | compound |
| 28 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dere | compound |
| 29 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 en | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 dere | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 dere | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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