Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 37

"'Dar's a bunch er his fur on dat black-be'y bush,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'en dat ain't de way he come,' sezee.

Who acts: Dar, dat ai · What happens: be, say, not come · To what, where: bunch, Brer Fox, sezee · 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 (Dar, dat ai), 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 bunch	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 bunch	punct
3	Dar	Dar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bunch	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bunch	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bunch	det
6	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	er	er	ADP	_	9 fur	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fur	nmod:poss
9	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bunch	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	15 bush	case
11	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bush	amod
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 be'y	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 black	punct
14	be'y	be'y	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bush	compound
15	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fur	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sez	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 sez	punct
18	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bunch	parataxis
19	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Fox	compound
20	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sez	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sezee	punct
22	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Fox	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 ai	punct
25	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dat	compound
26	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ai	compound
27	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	nsubj
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 come	advmod
29	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	30 way	compound
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	nsubj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 come	nsubj
32	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 sez	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sezee	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 sezee	punct
35	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bunch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Dar	a bunch	er dar's fur on dat be'y bush	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present		Brer Fox and sezee		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic
3	not come in a quote	infinitive	dat ai	sezee		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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