Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 52
"'How Mr. Buzzard gwine ter git 'im?' sez de Buzzard, sezee.
Who acts: Buzzard ter git · What happens: 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 (Buzzard ter git), 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 | _ | 13 sez | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
| 3 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 sez | advmod |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Buzzard | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 git | compound |
| 6 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ter | compound |
| 7 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 git | compound |
| 8 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | nsubj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 im | punct |
| 10 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 git | appos |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 im | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 im | punct |
| 13 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | de | de | ADP | _ | 15 Buzzard | case |
| 15 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sezee | punct |
| 17 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Buzzard | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Buzzard ter git | de Buzzard and sezee | 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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