Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 21
"'Law, Brer Tarrypin,' sez Miss Meadows, sez she, 'you don't mean ter say he cusst?' sez she, en den de gals hilt der fans up 'fo' der faces.
Who acts: Law, you, ter, de gals · What happens: say, not mean, cusst, hilt, fan up · To what, where: up'n · 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 (Law, you, ter, de gals), 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 | _ | 13 sez | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Law | punct |
| 3 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Brer | punct |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Law | conj |
| 6 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Meadows | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Meadows | punct |
| 9 | sez | sez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Meadows | amod |
| 10 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Meadows | compound |
| 11 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Law | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
| 13 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 sez | csubj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sez | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mean | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 mean | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 mean | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 mean | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 mean | advmod |
| 20 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sez | parataxis |
| 21 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 say | nsubj |
| 22 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 mean | ccomp |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 cusst | nsubj |
| 24 | cusst | cusst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 say | ccomp |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
| 27 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sez | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hilt | punct |
| 30 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 den | compound |
| 31 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 de | compound |
| 32 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gals | compound |
| 33 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 hilt | nsubj |
| 34 | hilt | hilt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 sez | conj |
| 35 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 hilt | xcomp |
| 36 | fans | fan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 sez | conj |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 fans | compound:prt |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 fo | punct |
| 39 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 42 faces | case |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 fo | punct |
| 41 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 42 faces | amod |
| 42 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 fans | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Law and Brer and sez Miss Meadows | up'n | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask in a quote | present | ter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cusst in a quote | ter | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | up'n | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 6 | hilt in a quote | present | de gals | d property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fan up in a quote | present | for der faces | 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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