Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 5
"'How you speck Brer Rabbit gittin' on, Brer Buzzard?' sez Brer Fox, sezee.
Who acts: you · What happens: speck, say · To what, where: Rabbit gittin, Brer Fox · 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), 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 speck | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 speck | punct |
| 3 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 speck | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 speck | nsubj |
| 5 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sez | csubj |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Rabbit | compound |
| 7 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gittin | compound |
| 8 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speck | obj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 gittin | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 speck | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Brer | punct |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 speck | parataxis |
| 13 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Brer | flat |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 speck | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 speck | punct |
| 16 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Fox | compound |
| 18 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sez | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sezee | punct |
| 20 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Fox | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speck in a quote | present | you | Rabbit gittin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask in a quote | present | Brer Fox and sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=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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