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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ladies | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ladies | punct |
| 3 | Ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 w'at | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ladies | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 w'at | nsubj |
| 6 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 w'at | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 w'at | advmod |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 sputin | punct |
| 9 | sputin | sputin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 w'at | compound |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 sputin | punct |
| 11 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 make | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 make | nsubj |
| 17 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | aux |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 say | ccomp |
| 19 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Rabbit | compound |
| 20 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 21 | chaw | chaw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 make | xcomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 chaw | compound:prt |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 words | nmod:poss |
| 24 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 chaw | obj |
| 25 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 um | amod |
| 26 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 um | compound |
| 27 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 words | appos |
| 28 | out | out | ADV | _ | 27 um | advmod |
| 29 | right | right | ADV | _ | 30 yer | advmod |
| 30 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 whar | amod |
| 31 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kin | obl |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 kin | nsubj |
| 33 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | parataxis |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 kin | xcomp |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 im | punct |
| 36 | im | im | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 see | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sezee | punct |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 sezee | punct |
| 39 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 im | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 dat | punct |
| 41 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 wid | compound |
| 42 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 dat | compound |
| 43 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sezee | appos |
| 44 | off | off | ADP | _ | 47 put | mark |
| 45 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Fox | compound |
| 46 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 put | nsubj |
| 47 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 dat | acl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 w'at | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | sputin w'at not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | future | I | Brer Rabbit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | chaw up in a quote | infinitive | Brer Rabbit not said here | Rabbit's words | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kin in a quote | present | you | yer whar | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | put in a quote | past | Brer Fox | wid dat not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dat=Goal | ||||
| 7 | word in a quote | Rabbit | nom 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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