Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 2
Twan't no 'Lemme a hoss,' ner 'Fetch me my buggy,' but dey des up'n lit out en tote deyse'f.
Who acts: Twa · What happens: fetch, lit out · To what, where: buggy, me, dey
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: who acts (Twa), 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 | Twa | Twa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Fetch | nsubj |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 hoss | advmod |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 hoss | det |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 hoss | punct |
| 5 | Lemme | Lemme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hoss | compound |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hoss | det |
| 7 | hoss | hoss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Twa | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ner | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 ner | punct |
| 10 | ner | ner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Twa | appos |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 ner | punct |
| 12 | Fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Fetch | obj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 buggy | nmod:poss |
| 15 | buggy | buggy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Fetch | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Fetch | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Fetch | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 lit | cc |
| 19 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lit | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | des | des | X | _ | 19 dey | flat:foreign |
| 21 | up'n | up'n | ADV | _ | 22 lit | advmod |
| 22 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Fetch | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 lit | compound:prt |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 deyse'f | compound |
| 25 | tote | tote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 deyse'f | compound |
| 26 | deyse'f | deyse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lit | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Fetch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | infinitive | Twa no Lemme hoss | my buggy | me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary buggy=Theme | |||
| 2 | lit out | participle · passive | dey | up'n property | 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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