Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 18
"W'y co'se he did," said Uncle Remus. "
Who acts: W'y co'se, Uncle Remus · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'y co'se, Uncle Remus), 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 | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 2 | W'y | W'y | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 co'se | compound |
| 3 | co'se | co'se | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Remus | compound |
| 10 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | W'y co'se | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Uncle Remus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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