Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 69
He sorter losin' his gait now, but I speck I kin fetch 'im all right in a mont' er so,' sezee.
Who acts: I · What happens: speck, fetch · To what, where: 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: who acts (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 losin | nsubj |
| 2 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 losin | compound |
| 3 | losin | losin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 losin | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 gait | nmod:poss |
| 6 | gait | gait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 losin | conj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 losin | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 speck | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 speck | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 speck | nsubj |
| 11 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 losin | conj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 fetch | nsubj |
| 13 | kin | kin | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fetch | aux |
| 14 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 speck | ccomp |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 right | punct |
| 16 | im | im | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 right | amod |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 right | advmod |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fetch | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 er | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mont | det |
| 21 | mont | mont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 er | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 21 mont | case |
| 23 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 right | obl |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 sezee | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ' | punct |
| 26 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 27 sezee | punct |
| 27 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fetch | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 losin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speck | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fetch | I | sezee | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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