Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 40
"'Dat's needer here ner dar, Brer Buzzard,' sezee. '
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: 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 | _ | 8 dar | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 needer | punct |
| 3 | Dat | Dat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 needer | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Dat | case |
| 5 | needer | needer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dar | compound |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 needer | advmod |
| 7 | ner | ner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dar | compound |
| 8 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Brer | punct |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dar | appos |
| 11 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Brer | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sezee | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 sezee | punct |
| 14 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dar | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dar | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 dar | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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