Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 22
"Brer Fox ain't sayin' nuthin' 'tall.
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brer | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ai | nsubj |
| 3 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Brer | flat |
| 4 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 sayin | advmod |
| 6 | sayin | sayin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ai | obj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 nuthin | punct |
| 8 | nuthin | nuthin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sayin | appos |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 nuthin | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 nuthin | punct |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ai | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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