Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 23
"'Hang me des ez high as you please, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but do fer de Lord's sake don't fling me in dat brier- patch,' sezee.
Who acts: you, sake · What happens: hang, say, do, not fling · To what, where: Bimeby, Brer, fer, dat brier patch · 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 (you, sake), 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 Hang | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hang | punct |
| 3 | Hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 Hang | obj |
| 5 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 Hang | obj |
| 6 | ez | ez | ADV | _ | 7 high | advmod |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Hang | advcl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 Fox | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 Fox | nsubj |
| 10 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 13 Fox | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 please | punct |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Fox | compound |
| 13 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 high | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sez | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 sez | punct |
| 16 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Hang | conj |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sez | obj |
| 18 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Brer | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sezee | punct |
| 20 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Brer | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hang | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hang | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 do | cc |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 Hang | conj |
| 25 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obj |
| 26 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Lord | compound |
| 27 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sake | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 Lord | case |
| 29 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fling | nsubj |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 fling | aux |
| 31 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 fling | advmod |
| 32 | fling | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Hang | conj |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 fling | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 patch | case |
| 35 | dat | dat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 patch | amod |
| 36 | brier | brier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 patch | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 brier | punct |
| 38 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fling | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 sezee | punct |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 sezee | punct |
| 41 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 patch | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Bimeby | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Patient des=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you not said here | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | fer | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fer=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not fling in a quote | present · do-support | de Lord's sake | Bimeby | dat brier patch and sezee | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme in patch=Destination |
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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