Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 61
"'Short'nin' de lef stir'p, Brer Fox,' sezee.
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Short'nin | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Short'nin | punct |
| 3 | Short'nin | Short'nin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stir'p | nsubj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Short'nin | punct |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 stir'p | compound |
| 6 | lef | lef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stir'p | compound |
| 7 | stir'p | stir'p | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fox | punct |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fox | compound |
| 10 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stir'p | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sezee | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sezee | punct |
| 13 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stir'p | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stir'p | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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