Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 17
"'Den I'll 'pen' on you,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
Who acts: I, Den · What happens: pen, say · To what, where: Den, Brer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Den), 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 | _ | 3 Den | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Den | punct |
| 3 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 pen | nsubj |
| 5 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 pen | aux |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 pen | punct |
| 7 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Den | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 pen | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 pen | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Den | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Den | punct |
| 13 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | obj |
| 15 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sezee | punct |
| 17 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pen in a quote | future | I | Den not said here | on you | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Den | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=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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