Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 11
"'Well, I speck I got you dis time, Brer Rabbit, sezee; 'maybe I ain't, but I speck I is.
Who acts: Bimeby, you · What happens: speck, get, dis, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For 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 (Bimeby, you), 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 | _ | 6 speck | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 speck | punct |
| 3 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 speck | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Well | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 speck | nsubj |
| 6 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 speck | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 dis | nsubj |
| 10 | dis | dis | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | ccomp |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dis | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rabbit | punct |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Rabbit | compound |
| 14 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 time | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sezee | punct |
| 16 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Rabbit | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 ai | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 ai | punct |
| 19 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 21 ai | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ai | nsubj |
| 21 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 speck | parataxis |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 ai | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 speck | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 speck | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 speck | nsubj |
| 26 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 ai | conj |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 is | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 speck | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 speck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speck in a quote | present | Bimeby | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | Bimeby | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | dis in a quote | present | you | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speck in a quote | present | Bimeby | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | Bimeby | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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