Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 3
"But, Uncle Remus, I ain't bad," said the little boy plaintively.
Who acts: Uncle Remus, little boy · What happens: not be, 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 (Uncle Remus, little boy), 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 | _ | 10 bad | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 bad | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Remus | punct |
| 4 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Remus | compound |
| 5 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bad | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Remus | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bad | nsubj |
| 8 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bad | cop |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 bad | advmod |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bad | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bad | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boy | amod |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | plaintively | plaintively | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | Uncle Remus | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the little boy | plaintively 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.
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