Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 15
"En eve'y time a chip ud fly off, Mr. Buzzard, he'd jump, en dodge, en hol' his head sideways, he would, en holler:
Who acts: chip ud, ud · What happens: fly off, jump · To what, where: Buzzard, en dodge
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 (chip ud, ud), 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 | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 2 | En | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eve'y | compound |
| 3 | eve'y | eve'y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fly | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ud | det |
| 6 | chip | chip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ud | compound |
| 7 | ud | ud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fly | nsubj |
| 8 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 fly | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Buzzard | punct |
| 11 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Buzzard | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fly | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 jump | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 jump | nsubj |
| 15 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 jump | aux |
| 16 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fly | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dodge | punct |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dodge | compound |
| 19 | dodge | dodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jump | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hol | punct |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hol | compound |
| 22 | hol | hol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dodge | appos |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 hol | punct |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jump | obj |
| 26 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 16 jump | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 would | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 would | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fly | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 holler | punct |
| 31 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 holler | compound |
| 32 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 would | obl |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off in a quote | infinitive | a chip ud | Buzzard Mr. | time | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | jump in a quote | would | ud | en dodge | sideways property | tree rules |
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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