Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 35
"'Lemme lone, Brer Fox,' sez Mr. Buzzard, sezee; my ole 'oman waitin' fer me.
Who acts: Lemme lone · What happens: say · To what, where: Buzzard · 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 (Lemme lone), 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 lone | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 lone | punct |
| 3 | Lemme | Lemme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lone | compound |
| 4 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sez | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fox | punct |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fox | compound |
| 7 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lone | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lone | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 lone | punct |
| 10 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Buzzard | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sez | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sezee | punct |
| 14 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Buzzard | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ole | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ole | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 waitin | amod |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 ole | punct |
| 19 | oman | oman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 waitin | compound |
| 20 | waitin | waitin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sez | obj |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 fer | punct |
| 22 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 waitin | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 fer | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Lemme lone and Brer Fox | Buzzard Mr. and sezee | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent buzzard=Theme waitin=Manner |
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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