Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 22
"'Oh, no, ma'am,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'he didn't cusst, but he holler out--"Heyo, Stinkin' Jim!"' sezee.
Who acts: Brer · What happens: say, not cusst out, holler · To what, where: Brer, Heyo · 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 (Brer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sez | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 no | punct |
| 3 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 no | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Oh | punct |
| 5 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 sez | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ma'am | punct |
| 7 | ma'am | ma'am | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 no | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sez | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 sez | punct |
| 10 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sez | obj |
| 12 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sezee | punct |
| 14 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cusst | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 cusst | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cusst | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cusst | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 cusst | advmod |
| 20 | cusst | cusst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sez | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 holler | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 holler | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 holler | nsubj |
| 24 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cusst | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 cusst | compound:prt |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 Heyo | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Heyo | punct |
| 28 | Heyo | Heyo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 cusst | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Jim | punct |
| 30 | Stinkin | Stinkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Jim | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 30 Stinkin | case |
| 32 | Jim | Jim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Heyo | nmod |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 Jim | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Jim | punct |
| 35 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 32 Jim | case |
| 36 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Heyo | flat:foreign |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not cusst out in a quote | past · do-support | Brer | Heyo | 's Stinkin's Jim | tree rules | |||
| 3 | holler speech: other in a quote | Brer | 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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