Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 53
"'Well, dar's a little hole roun' on de udder side er de tree,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en ef Brer Tukkey Buzzard wuz here so he could take up his stan' dar,' sezee, 'I'd drive dat squir'l out,' sezee.
Who acts: dar, little hole roun, roun, Den · What happens: be, say, take up, drive out · To what, where: little hole roun, udder side, Brer, dar, dat squir'l · 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 (dar, little hole roun, roun, Den), 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 roun | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Well | punct |
| 3 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 roun | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Well | punct |
| 5 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roun | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 roun | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 roun | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 roun | amod |
| 9 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roun | compound |
| 10 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sez | nsubj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 roun | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 13 | de | de | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | compound |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roun | nmod |
| 16 | er | er | ADV | _ | 18 tree | advmod |
| 17 | de | de | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tree | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 roun | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 roun | punct |
| 21 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sez | obj |
| 23 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Brer | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sezee | punct |
| 25 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Brer | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ef | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 ef | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ef | compound |
| 29 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Brer | appos |
| 30 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 ef | appos |
| 31 | Tukkey | Tukkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Brer | flat |
| 32 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Brer | flat |
| 33 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Brer | list |
| 34 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 ef | advmod |
| 35 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 38 take | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 take | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 take | aux |
| 38 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sez | advcl |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 take | compound:prt |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 dar | nmod:poss |
| 41 | stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 dar | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 41 stan | case |
| 43 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 take | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 sezee | punct |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 sezee | punct |
| 46 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 dar | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 drive | punct |
| 48 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 51 drive | punct |
| 49 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 drive | nsubj |
| 50 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 drive | aux |
| 51 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sez | parataxis |
| 52 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 squir'l | compound |
| 53 | squir'l | squir'l | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 drive | obj |
| 54 | out | out | ADV | _ | 51 drive | advmod |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 sezee | punct |
| 56 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 57 sezee | punct |
| 57 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 drive | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | dar | a little hole roun | udder side de's tree | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | a little hole roun | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take up in a quote | could | roun | roun's dar and sezee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dar=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drive out in a quote | would | Den | dat squir'l | sezee obl; out property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squir'l=Theme |
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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