Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 88

"Nex' mile-pos' he jump, B'er Deer say: 'Hullo, B'er Cooter!'

Who acts: nex, B'er Deer · What happens: jump, say · To what, where: mile pos, 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 (nex, B'er Deer), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Nex	punct
2	Nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pos	nsubj
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Nex	punct
4	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pos	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 pos	punct
6	pos	pos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 pos	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 jump	nsubj
9	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pos	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
11	B'er	B'er	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Deer	compound
12	Deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pos	parataxis
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Hullo	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 Hullo	punct
16	Hullo	hullo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Cooter	punct
18	B'er	B'er	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Cooter	compound
19	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Hullo	appos
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 Cooter	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 Cooter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump in a quote	infinitive	nex	mile pos not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pos=Trajectory
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	B'er Deer	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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