Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 10

You dunno nuthin' 'tall 'bout Brer Rabbit ef dat's de way you puttin' 'im down.

Who acts: You · What happens: dunno, puttin, im down · To what, where: nuthin, de way

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 dunno	nsubj
2	dunno	dunno	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dunno	obj
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 nuthin	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 tall	punct
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nuthin	appos
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 tall	punct
8	bout	bout	ADP	_	15 way	case
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Rabbit	compound
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 dat	compound
11	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dat	compound
12	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 way	nsubj
13	's	's	PART	_	12 dat	case
14	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dunno	obl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 puttin	nsubj
17	puttin	puttin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 way	acl:relcl
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 im	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 im	punct
20	im	im	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 puttin	ccomp
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 im	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dunno	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dunno	present	You	nuthin	bout de way	tree rules
2	puttin	present	you	de way not said here		tree rules
3	im down	participle	you not said here			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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