Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 12
En eve'y time he come down wid de axe--pow!--Mr. Buzzard, he step high, he did, en holler out:
Who acts: Den, Buzzard · What happens: come down, step, do · To what, where: wid de axe, en holler
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 (Den, Buzzard), 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 | En | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eve'y | compound |
| 2 | eve'y | eve'y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 wid | advmod |
| 7 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 axe | amod |
| 8 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 axe | amod |
| 9 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 pow | punct |
| 11 | pow | pow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 axe | conj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 Buzzard | punct |
| 14 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Buzzard | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 did | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 step | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 step | nsubj |
| 18 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Buzzard | appos |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 step | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 did | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 did | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 holler | punct |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 holler | compound |
| 25 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 did | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 holler | compound:prt |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | present | Den | wid de axe and pow | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location axe=Theme | |||
| 2 | step | Den | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do | past | Buzzard Mr. | en holler | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holler=Eventuality |
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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