Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 45
"Brer Fox done gone, en nobody say nuthin'.
Who acts: Brer Fox, nobody · What happens: do, say · To what, where: en, nuthin · 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 (Brer Fox, nobody), 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 | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Fox | compound |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | nsubj |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 done | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 en | punct |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | obl |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 en | acl |
| 10 | nuthin | nuthin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | obj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 nuthin | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | Brer Fox | en | gone property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | nobody | nuthin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nuthin=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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