Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 27
"'Skin me, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'snatch out my eyeballs, t'ar out my years by de roots, en cut off my legs,' sezee, 'but do please, Brer Fox, don't fling me in dat brier- patch,' sezee.
Who acts: you, en · What happens: skin, say, snatch out, cut off, do, not fling · To what, where: Bimeby, Brer, eyeballs, legs, Brer Fox, 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, en), 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 Skin | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Skin | punct |
| 3 | Skin | skin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 Skin | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fox | punct |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fox | compound |
| 7 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Skin | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sez | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 sez | punct |
| 10 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Skin | conj |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sez | obj |
| 12 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sezee | punct |
| 14 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 snatch | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 snatch | punct |
| 17 | snatch | snatch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 sez | parataxis |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 snatch | compound:prt |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyeballs | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyeballs | eyeball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 snatch | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 t'ar | punct |
| 22 | t'ar | t'ar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eyeballs | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 snatch | compound:prt |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 years | nmod:poss |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 snatch | obl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 roots | case |
| 27 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 28 roots | nmod |
| 28 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 snatch | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 en | punct |
| 30 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 roots | conj |
| 31 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 en | acl |
| 32 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 cut | compound:prt |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 legs | nmod:poss |
| 34 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 cut | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sezee | punct |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 sezee | punct |
| 37 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 roots | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 roots | punct |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 roots | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 do | cc |
| 41 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 snatch | conj |
| 42 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 45 Fox | discourse |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Fox | punct |
| 44 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Fox | compound |
| 45 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 do | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 fling | punct |
| 47 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 49 fling | aux |
| 48 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 fling | advmod |
| 49 | fling | fling | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 snatch | conj |
| 50 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 fling | obj |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 patch | case |
| 52 | dat | dat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 patch | amod |
| 53 | brier | brier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 patch | compound |
| 54 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 brier | punct |
| 55 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 fling | obl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 sezee | punct |
| 57 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 58 sezee | punct |
| 58 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 patch | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Skin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skin in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Bimeby | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | ||||
| 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 | snatch out in a quote | infinitive | my eyeballs and t'ar | year | by roots de and en and sezee | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyeball=Theme | |||
| 4 | cut off in a quote | participle | en not said here | my legs | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector leg=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | infinitive | Brer Fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | not fling in a quote | infinitive · do-support | 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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