Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 78
"So B'er Cooter say to B'er Deer: 'You has got mo longer legs dan I has, but I will run you.
Who acts: B'er Cooter, B'er Deer · What happens: say, get, have, run · To what, where: B'er Deer, longer legs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (B'er Cooter, B'er Deer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:80): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 say | advmod |
| 3 | B'er | B'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Cooter | compound |
| 4 | Cooter | Cooter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Deer | case |
| 7 | B'er | B'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Deer | compound |
| 8 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 say | ccomp |
| 14 | mo | mo | ADV | _ | 15 longer | advmod |
| 15 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 legs | amod |
| 16 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 got | obj |
| 17 | dan | dan | SCONJ | _ | 19 has | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 has | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 longer | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 run | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 run | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 run | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 run | aux |
| 24 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 got | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 run | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | B'er Cooter | B'er Deer | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to deer=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · perfect | B'er Deer = deer | longer legs | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | B'er Cooter = cooter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | run in a quote | future | B'er Cooter = cooter | B'er Deer = deer | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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