Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 32
Brer Rabbit wuz bleedzed fer ter fling back some er his sass, en he holler out:
Who acts: Brer, bleedzed ter fling · What happens: fling back, er out, holler · To what, where: sass
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 (Brer, bleedzed ter fling), 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fling | nsubj |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fling | nsubj |
| 4 | bleedzed | bleedzed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fling | amod |
| 5 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ter | compound |
| 6 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fling | compound |
| 7 | fling | fling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 er | nsubj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 fling | advmod |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 er | nsubj |
| 10 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sass | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sass | sass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 er | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 en | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sass | conj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 holler | nsubj |
| 16 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sass | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 er | compound:prt |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 er | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling back | Brer | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | er out | past | bleedzed ter fling | wuz's sass and en and holler | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | holler speech: other | Brer | 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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