Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 24
You hear dat, gals?' sez Miss Meadows, sez she; 'Brer Fox call Brer Tarrypin Stinkin' Jim,' sez she, en den Miss Meadows en de gals make great wonderment how Brer Fox kin talk dat a way 'bout nice man like Brer Tarrypin.
Who acts: You, sez Miss Meadows, Brer Fox call, en den · What happens: hear, say, make · To what, where: dat, Heyo, great wonderment · 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 (You, sez Miss Meadows, Brer Fox call, en den), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hear | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gals | punct |
| 5 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dat | conj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 hear | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 hear | punct |
| 8 | sez | sez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Meadows | amod |
| 9 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Meadows | compound |
| 10 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 sez | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sez | punct |
| 12 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hear | parataxis |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sez | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 sez | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 call | punct |
| 16 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 call | compound |
| 17 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 call | compound |
| 18 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sez | nsubj |
| 19 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Stinkin | compound |
| 20 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Brer | flat |
| 21 | Stinkin | Stinkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Jim | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 21 Stinkin | case |
| 23 | Jim | Jim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 call | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 call | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 call | punct |
| 26 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hear | parataxis |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sez | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 den | punct |
| 29 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 den | compound |
| 30 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | nsubj |
| 31 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Meadows | compound |
| 32 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 den | nmod |
| 33 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 gals | compound |
| 34 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 gals | compound |
| 35 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Meadows | nmod |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sez | parataxis |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 wonderment | amod |
| 38 | wonderment | wonderment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | obj |
| 39 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 talk | advmod |
| 40 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 talk | compound |
| 41 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Brer | flat |
| 42 | kin | kin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 talk | amod |
| 43 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | obl |
| 44 | dat | dat | ADP | _ | 50 man | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 way | det |
| 46 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 bout | nmod:poss |
| 47 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 46 way | case |
| 48 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 man | nsubj |
| 49 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 man | amod |
| 50 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 talk | nmod |
| 51 | like | like | ADP | _ | 52 Brer | case |
| 52 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 man | nmod |
| 53 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 Brer | flat |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | You | dat and gals | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dat=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | sez Miss Meadows | Heyo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Brer Fox call Brer Stinkin's Jim | Heyo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make | present | en den Miss Meadows en de gals | great wonderment | Brer kin talk dat nice man like Brer obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wonderment=Product |
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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