Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 31
Den Brer Rabbit holler out mighty weak: 'Is dat you, Brer Fox?
Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: dat
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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 weak | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | list |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Den | compound:prt |
| 6 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 weak | amod |
| 7 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 dat | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 dat | punct |
| 10 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dat | cop |
| 11 | dat | dat | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 weak | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 dat | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Fox | punct |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Fox | compound |
| 15 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weak | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 weak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | dat | 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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