Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 1
"EF I don't run inter no mistakes," remarked Uncle Remus, as the little boy came tripping in to see him after supper, "Mr. Tukkey Buzzard wuz gyardin' de holler whar Brer Rabbit went in at, en w'ich he come out un."
Who acts: EF, Uncle Remus, little boy, Tukkey · What happens: not run, remark, come, trip, see, go in · To what, where: inter mistakes, boy, en w'ich, un · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (EF, Uncle Remus, little boy, Tukkey), 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 | _ | 6 run | punct |
| 2 | EF | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 run | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 run | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 run | advmod |
| 6 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | inter | int | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 mistakes | amod |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 mistakes | det |
| 9 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 run | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remarked | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 remarked | punct |
| 12 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 run | advcl |
| 13 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Remus | compound |
| 14 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 remarked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 boy | amod |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | parataxis |
| 21 | tripping | trip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 came | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 21 tripping | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 see | mark |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 tripping | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | obj |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 supper | case |
| 27 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 see | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 run | punct |
| 30 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Tukkey | nmod:desc |
| 31 | Tukkey | Tukkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 went | nsubj |
| 32 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Tukkey | flat |
| 33 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gyardin | compound |
| 34 | gyardin | gyardin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Tukkey | appos |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 gyardin | punct |
| 36 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 38 whar | compound |
| 37 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 whar | compound |
| 38 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gyardin | conj |
| 39 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 whar | appos |
| 40 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Brer | flat |
| 41 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | parataxis |
| 42 | in | in | ADV | _ | 41 went | advmod |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 w'ich | case |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 w'ich | punct |
| 45 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 w'ich | compound |
| 46 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 went | obl |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 come | nsubj |
| 48 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 went | parataxis |
| 49 | out | out | ADV | _ | 48 come | advmod |
| 50 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 come | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 run | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run in a quote | present · do-support | EF | no inter mistakes | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mistake=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | Uncle Remus | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the little boy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | trip | gerund | the little boy not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | the little boy not said here | boy | after supper | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | go in in a quote | past | Tukkey Mr. | en w'ich | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at w'ich=Location | ||||
| 7 | come out in a quote | present | Tukkey | un | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient un=Result |
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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