Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 19
"Den Brer Rabbit talk mighty 'umble.
Who acts: Den · What happens: talk · To what, where: mighty umble
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 (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 | _ | 2 Den | punct |
| 2 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 talk | nsubj |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | flat |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | flat |
| 5 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 umble | amod |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 mighty | punct |
| 8 | umble | umble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talk | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk in a quote | present | Den | mighty umble | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent umble=Patient |
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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