Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 38
De gals, dey 'lowed dat hit wouldn't be no party 'ceppin' I fotch you,' sez Brer Fox, sezee.
Who acts: dey, De gals, party, I · What happens: low, hit, not be, fotch, say · To what, where: dat, ceppin, you, Brer Fox · 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 (dey, De gals, party, 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gals | compound |
| 2 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hit | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dey | punct |
| 4 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gals | conj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 lowed | punct |
| 6 | lowed | low | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dey | acl:relcl |
| 7 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lowed | obj |
| 8 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 ceppin | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 ceppin | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ceppin | cop |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 party | det |
| 13 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ceppin | nsubj |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 ceppin | punct |
| 15 | ceppin | ceppin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hit | obj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 ceppin | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 fotch | nsubj |
| 18 | fotch | fotch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hit | parataxis |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 fotch | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sez | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 sez | punct |
| 22 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hit | conj |
| 23 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Fox | compound |
| 24 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sez | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sezee | punct |
| 26 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Fox | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | low | past | dey not said here | dat | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hit | past | De gals and dey | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not is a | would | no party | ceppin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fotch | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | De gals and dey not said here | Brer Fox and sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=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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