Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 33
"'I'm nigher ter you, Brer Buzzard,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'dan I'll be ter Brer Rabbit dis day,' sezee. '
Who acts: Den, dan · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Brer Fox, ter Brer dis day · 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 (Den, dan), 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 | _ | 5 nigher | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 nigher | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 nigher | nsubj |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 nigher | cop |
| 5 | nigher | nigh | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 nigher | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Brer | punct |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 nigher | obl |
| 10 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Brer | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
| 13 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 nigher | conj |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Fox | compound |
| 15 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sezee | punct |
| 17 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Fox | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 day | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 dan | punct |
| 20 | dan | dan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 day | nsubj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 day | nsubj |
| 22 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 day | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 day | cop |
| 24 | ter | ter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 day | amod |
| 25 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 day | compound |
| 26 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dis | compound |
| 27 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 day | compound |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sezee | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 sezee | punct |
| 31 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 nigher | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 nigher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Den | ter you; Brer obl; nigh property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Den not said here | Brer Fox and sezee | sezee obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | future | dan | ter Brer dis day | 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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