Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 55
Den Brer Rabbit, he up'n say, sezee:
Who acts: um, Den up'n · What happens: up'n, say · To what, where: sezee · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (um, Den up'n), 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 up'n | compound |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Den | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 up'n | nsubj |
| 6 | up'n | up'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sezee | punct |
| 9 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | up'n | um | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | Den up'n | sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=Topic |
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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