Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 24
"'Den Brer Rabbit, he holler back, he did: I'm a gitten me out a roas'n-piece,' sezee.
Who acts: Rabbit, Brer Rabbit, dey · What happens: holler back, do out, be · To what, where: roas'n piece, gitten
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit, Brer Rabbit, dey), 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 | _ | 5 Rabbit | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rabbit | punct |
| 3 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | compound |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Rabbit | compound |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 did | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 holler | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 holler | nsubj |
| 8 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Rabbit | appos |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 holler | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rabbit | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 gitten | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 gitten | nsubj |
| 15 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 gitten | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 gitten | det |
| 17 | gitten | gitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 gitten | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 did | compound:prt |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 piece | det |
| 21 | roas'n | roas'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 piece | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 roas'n | punct |
| 23 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sezee | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 sezee | punct |
| 26 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 piece | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | holler back speech: other in a quote | Rabbit | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do out in a quote | past | Brer Rabbit | a roas'n piece and sezee | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | dey | a gitten | 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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