Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 37

Ef I don't disremember," he continued, "hit wuz Miss Molly Cottontail, en I speck we better let it go at dat."

Who acts: I, Ef, Cottontail · What happens: not disremember, continue, hit, speck, let, go · To what, where: Ef, Miss, en, Cottontail, dat

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 (I, Ef, Cottontail), 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	Ef	Ef	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 continued	nsubj
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 disremember	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 disremember	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 disremember	advmod
5	disremember	disremember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ef	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ef	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 continued	nsubj
9	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hit	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 hit	punct
12	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 continued	ccomp
13	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Miss	nmod:desc
14	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hit	obj
15	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Miss	flat
16	Cottontail	cottontail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hit	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 speck	punct
18	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 speck	obl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 speck	nsubj
20	speck	speck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hit	conj
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 speck	obj
22	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 let	advmod
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 speck	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 dat	case
27	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not disremember	present · do-support	I	Ef not said here			tree rules
2	continue in a quote	past	Ef				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	hit	infinitive	Ef not said here	Miss wuz			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent miss=Patient cottontail=Result
4	speck	present	I	en			tree rules
5	let	infinitive	I not said here	Cottontail		well property	tree rules
6	go	infinitive	Cottontail not said here		dat		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at dat=Location

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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