Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 26
"'Dey ain't no water nigh,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'en now I speck I'll hatter skin you,' sezee.
Who acts: Bimeby, you · What happens: say, speck, hatter, skin · To what, where: Brer Fox, sezee · 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 | _ | 4 ai | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ai | punct |
| 3 | Dey | Dey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ai | nsubj |
| 4 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 water | advmod |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ai | obj |
| 8 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 4 ai | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sez | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 sez | punct |
| 11 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ai | conj |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Fox | compound |
| 13 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sez | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sezee | punct |
| 15 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Fox | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 en | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 en | punct |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sez | conj |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 speck | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 speck | nsubj |
| 21 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sez | advcl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 hatter | nsubj |
| 23 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 hatter | aux |
| 24 | hatter | hatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 speck | ccomp |
| 25 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hatter | obj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 skin | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sezee | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 sezee | punct |
| 29 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hatter | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Brer Fox and sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic | |||||
| 2 | speck in a quote | present | Bimeby | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hatter in a quote | future | Bimeby | sezee | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | skin in a quote | you | tree rules |
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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