Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 34
Do, please, Brer Fox, run quick,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, run, say · To what, where: Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit · 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), 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fox | punct |
| 3 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 6 Fox | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fox | punct |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fox | compound |
| 6 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Do | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | conj |
| 9 | quick | quick | ADV | _ | 8 run | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sez | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 sez | punct |
| 12 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Rabbit | compound |
| 14 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sez | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sezee | punct |
| 16 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sez | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | Brer Fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | run | infinitive | you not said here | quick property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Brer Rabbit | sezee obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rabbit=Topic |
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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