Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 9
"'Den I'm des in time fer ter wake im up, sez Brer Fox, sezee.
Who acts: Den, des · What happens: be, wake, im up, say · To what, where: des, time fer ter, 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 (Den, des), 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 | _ | 3 Den | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Den | punct |
| 3 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 des | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 des | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 des | cop |
| 6 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ter | case |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ter | compound |
| 9 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ter | compound |
| 10 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wake | obl |
| 11 | wake | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 des | acl:relcl |
| 12 | im | im | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wake | xcomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 im | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sez | punct |
| 15 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 des | parataxis |
| 16 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Fox | compound |
| 17 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sez | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sezee | punct |
| 19 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Fox | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 des | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Den | des | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wake in a quote | present | des not said here | time fer ter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | im up in a quote | participle | des not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | 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 |
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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