Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 25

"'Drown me des ez deep ez you please, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but do don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.

Who acts: you · What happens: drown, say, not fling · To what, where: Bimeby, Brer, 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), 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 Drown	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Drown	punct
3	Drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 Drown	obj
5	des	des	X	Foreign=Yes	3 Drown	obj
6	ez	ez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ez	amod
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ez	amod
8	ez	ez	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Drown	obl:unmarked
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 Drown	obj
10	please	please	INTJ	_	3 Drown	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Fox	punct
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Fox	compound
13	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Drown	parataxis
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 Drown	parataxis
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	_	22 '	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 sez	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 fling	cc
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 fling	aux
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 fling	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 fling	advmod
27	fling	fling	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 Drown	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 fling	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 patch	case
30	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 patch	amod
31	brier	brier	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 patch	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 brier	punct
33	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fling	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sezee	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 sezee	punct
36	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 patch	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Drown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drown in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Bimeby		ez deep ez obl:unmarked	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present		Brer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic
3	not fling in a quote	infinitive · do-support	you not said here	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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