Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 4
En he ain't hatter wait long, nudder, kase bimeby yer come Brer Fox gallopin' thoo de woods wid his axe on his shoulder.
Who acts: nudder, thoo de woods · What happens: not wait, come, wi · To what, where: Fox gallopin, axe, shoulder
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 (nudder, thoo de woods), 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 | 3 ai | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ai | nsubj |
| 3 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 wait | advmod |
| 5 | hatter | hatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wait | compound |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ai | xcomp |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 wait | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nudder | punct |
| 9 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kase | punct |
| 11 | kase | kase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nudder | conj |
| 12 | bimeby | bimeby | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 13 | yer | y | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 come | advmod |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wait | parataxis |
| 15 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Fox | compound |
| 16 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gallopin | compound |
| 17 | gallopin | gallopin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 wid | punct |
| 19 | thoo | thoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 woods | compound |
| 20 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 woods | compound |
| 21 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wid | nsubj |
| 22 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gallopin | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 axe | nmod:poss |
| 24 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wid | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 shoulder | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 27 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wid | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | infinitive | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | nudder and kase | Fox gallopin | bimeby property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gallopin=Theme | |||
| 3 | wi | past | thoo de woods | sorter's axe | sorter's shoulder | 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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