Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 46
"'Ef you fling me on der fier, Brer Fox, I'll fly 'way,' sez Mr. Buzzard, sezee.
Who acts: you, Den · What happens: fling, fly, say · To what, where: Ef, der fier, way, 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 (you, Den), 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 fling | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ef | punct |
| 3 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fling | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 fling | nsubj |
| 5 | fling | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fly | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fling | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 fier | case |
| 8 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 fier | amod |
| 9 | fier | fier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fling | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Brer | punct |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fier | appos |
| 12 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fling | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fly | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fly | aux |
| 16 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 way | punct |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fly | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sez | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 sez | punct |
| 21 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fly | conj |
| 22 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Buzzard | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sez | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sezee | punct |
| 25 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sez | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling in a quote | present | you | Ef | der fier | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme on fier=Destination | |||
| 2 | fly in a quote | future | Den | way | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Den not said here | Buzzard Mr. | sezee obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent buzzard=Topic |
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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