Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 50
"'W'at you want wid Mr. Buzzard?' sezee.
Who acts: you · What happens: want · To what, where: W'at
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 (you), 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 want | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 W'at | punct |
| 3 | W'at | W'at | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 want | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | obj |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Buzzard | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wid | appos |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 11 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | you | W'at | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent wid=Theme sezee=Attribute |
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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