Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 85
B'er Cooter say: 'Hullo!'
Who acts: B'er Cooter · What happens: say · To what, where: Hullo · 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), 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 | B'er | B'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Cooter | compound |
| 2 | Cooter | cooter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hullo | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hullo | punct |
| 6 | Hullo | hullo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hullo | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hullo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | B'er Cooter | Hullo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hullo=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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