Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 18

She wuz in de tale, Miss Meadows en de gals wuz, en de tale I give you like hi't wer' gun ter me.

Who acts: I · What happens: give · To what, where: de tale, you

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 (I), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wuz	compound
2	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 tale	case
4	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tale	amod
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wuz	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 en	punct
7	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Meadows	compound
8	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 en	compound
9	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wuz	conj
10	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 wuz	compound
11	gals	gal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wuz	compound
12	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 en	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 en	punct
14	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wuz	conj
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 tale	compound
16	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wuz	conj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
18	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tale	acl:relcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 wer	case
21	hi't	hi't	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wer	compound
22	wer	wer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obl
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 wer	punct
24	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wer	conj
25	ter	ter	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 gun	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wuz	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	I	de tale not said here	you			like hi't wer and gun ter me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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