Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 2
"I ain't tellin' no tales ter bad chilluns," said Uncle Remus curtly.
Who acts: tales · What happens: not be, say · To what, where: tellin · 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 (tales), 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 tellin | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tellin | nsubj |
| 3 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tellin | cop |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 tellin | advmod |
| 5 | tellin | tellin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 tellin | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 tales | det |
| 8 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ter | ter | X | _ | 11 chilluns | compound |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chilluns | amod |
| 11 | chilluns | chillun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tales | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chilluns | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 chilluns | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Remus | compound |
| 16 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | curtly | curtly | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | no tales ter bad chilluns = tale | tellin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | no tales ter bad chilluns | curtly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/10/2/