Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 15
"Co'se de talk fell on Brer Fox, en Miss Meadows en de gals make a great 'miration 'bout w'at a gaily ridin'-hoss Brer Fox wuz, en dey make lots er fun, en laugh en giggle same like gals duz deze days.
Who acts: Co'se, Miss Meadows, great miration, gaily ridin, lots, fun · What happens: talk, fall, make, w'at, er, laugh · To what, where: en, lots, en giggle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Co'se, Miss Meadows, great miration, gaily ridin), 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 | _ | 2 Co'se | punct |
| 2 | Co'se | Co'se | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 Co'se | flat:foreign |
| 4 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Co'se | conj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Fox | case |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fox | compound |
| 8 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 en | punct |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obl |
| 11 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Meadows | compound |
| 12 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 make | nsubj |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gals | compound |
| 14 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gals | compound |
| 15 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Meadows | nmod |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 miration | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 miration | amod |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 miration | punct |
| 20 | miration | miration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 w'at | nsubj |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 miration | punct |
| 22 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 w'at | compound |
| 23 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | ccomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 ridin | det |
| 25 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ridin | amod |
| 26 | ridin | ridin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | nsubj |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 ridin | punct |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 hoss | punct |
| 29 | hoss | hoss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ridin | conj |
| 30 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 hoss | appos |
| 31 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Brer | flat |
| 32 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Brer | list |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 dey | punct |
| 34 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 dey | compound |
| 35 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ridin | conj |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 37 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 make | obj |
| 38 | er | er | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 make | xcomp |
| 39 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 laugh | nsubj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 en | punct |
| 41 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fun | conj |
| 42 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 er | ccomp |
| 43 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 giggle | compound |
| 44 | giggle | giggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 laugh | obl |
| 45 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 giggle | amod |
| 46 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 48 duz | mark |
| 47 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 duz | nsubj |
| 48 | duz | duz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 same | advcl |
| 49 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 days | compound |
| 50 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 duz | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk in a quote | present | Co'se not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fall in a quote | past | Co'se | on Brer Fox | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on fox=Location | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | Miss Meadows en de gals | en | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | w'at in a quote | a great miration | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | make in a quote | present | a gaily ridin and hoss and en dey | lots | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | er in a quote | infinitive | lots not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | laugh in a quote | present | fun and en | en giggle | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | duz in a quote | present | gals | day | 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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