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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 23

"'Ladies, I ain't 'sputin' w'at you say, but I'll make Brer Rabbit chaw up his words en spit um out right yer whar you kin see 'im,' sezee, en wid dat off Brer Fox put.

Who acts: you, I, Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Rabbit · What happens: say, make, chaw up, kin, see, put · To what, where: sputin w'at, Brer Rabbit, words, yer whar, wid dat · Speech: someone speaks here

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, I, Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox), 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

punctpunctnsubjpunctnsubjauxadvmodpunctcompoundpunctnsubjacl:relclpunctccnsubjauxccompcompoundobjxcompcompound:prtnmod:possobjamodcompoundapposadvmodadvmodamodoblnsubjparataxisxcomppunctconjpunctpunctoblpunctcompoundcompoundapposmarkcompoundnsubjaclpunctroot"PUNCT'PUNCTLadiesNOUN,PUNCTIPRONaiAUXn'tPART'PUNCTsputinNOUN'PUNCTw'atNOUNyouPRONsayVERB,PUNCTbutCCONJIPRON'llAUXmakeVERBBrerPROPNRabbitPROPNchawVERBupADPhisPRONwordsNOUNenADJspitNOUNumNOUNoutADVrightADVyerADJwharNOUNyouPRONkinVERBseeVERB'PUNCTimADJ,PUNCT'PUNCTsezeeNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNwidNOUNdatNOUNoffADPBrerPROPNFoxNOUNputVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_3 Ladiespunct
2''PUNCT_3 Ladiespunct
3LadiesladyNOUNNumber=Plur11 w'atnsubj
4,,PUNCT_3 Ladiespunct
5IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs11 w'atnsubj
6aibeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 w'ataux
7n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg11 w'atadvmod
8''PUNCT_9 sputinpunct
9sputinsputinNOUNNumber=Sing11 w'atcompound
10''PUNCT_9 sputinpunct
11w'atw'atNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
12youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs13 saynsubj
13saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 w'atacl:relcl
14,,PUNCT_18 makepunct
15butbutCCONJ_18 makecc
16IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs18 makensubj
17'llwillAUXVerbForm=Fin18 makeaux
18makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf13 sayccomp
19BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing20 Rabbitcompound
20RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing18 makeobj
21chawchawVERBVerbForm=Inf18 makexcomp
22upupADP_21 chawcompound:prt
23hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 wordsnmod:poss
24wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur21 chawobj
25enenADJDegree=Pos27 umamod
26spitspitNOUNNumber=Sing27 umcompound
27umumNOUNNumber=Sing24 wordsappos
28outoutADV_27 umadvmod
29rightrightADV_30 yeradvmod
30yeryADJDegree=Cmp31 wharamod
31wharwharNOUNNumber=Sing33 kinobl
32youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs33 kinnsubj
33kinkinVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 makeparataxis
34seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf33 kinxcomp
35''PUNCT_36 impunct
36imimADJDegree=Pos34 seeconj
37,,PUNCT_39 sezeepunct
38''PUNCT_39 sezeepunct
39sezeesezeeNOUNNumber=Sing36 imobl
40,,PUNCT_43 datpunct
41enenNOUNNumber=Sing42 widcompound
42widwidNOUNNumber=Sing43 datcompound
43datdatNOUNNumber=Sing39 sezeeappos
44offoffADP_47 putmark
45BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing46 Foxcompound
46FoxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing47 putnsubj
47putputVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin43 datacl
48..PUNCT_11 w'atpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assert in a quotepresentyousputin w'at not said heretree rules
2make in a quotefutureIBrer Rabbittree rules
3chaw up in a quoteinfinitiveBrer Rabbit not said hereRabbit's wordstree rules
4kin in a quotepresentyouyer whartree rules
5see in a quoteinfinitiveyou not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6put in a quotepastBrer Foxwid dat not said herevn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dat=Goal
7word in a quoteRabbitnom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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