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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

nsubjobjpunctconjpunctpunctamodcompoundnsubjpunctparataxisobjpunctpunctcompoundcompoundnsubjcompoundflatnmod:posscasenmodpunctpunctparataxisobjpunctcompoundnsubjcompoundnmodcompoundcompoundnmodparataxisamodobjadvmodcompoundflatamodoblcasedetnmod:posscasensubjamodnmodcasenmodflatpunctrootYouPRONhearVERBdatNOUN,PUNCTgalsNOUN?PUNCT'PUNCTsezADJMissPROPNMeadowsPROPN,PUNCTsezVERBshePRON;PUNCT'PUNCTBrerPROPNFoxNOUNcallNOUNBrerPROPNTarrypinPROPNStinkinPROPN'PARTJimPROPN,PUNCT'PUNCTsezVERBshePRON,PUNCTenNOUNdenNOUNMissPROPNMeadowsPROPNenNOUNdeNOUNgalsNOUNmakeVERBgreatADJwondermentNOUNhowADVBrerPROPNFoxPROPNkinADJtalkNOUNdatADPaDETwayNOUN'PARTboutNOUNniceADJmanNOUNlikeADPBrerPROPNTarrypinPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs2 hearnsubj
2hearhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3datdatNOUNNumber=Sing2 hearobj
4,,PUNCT_5 galspunct
5galsgalNOUNNumber=Plur3 datconj
6??PUNCT_2 hearpunct
7''PUNCT_2 hearpunct
8sezsezADJDegree=Pos10 Meadowsamod
9MissMissPROPNNumber=Sing10 Meadowscompound
10MeadowsMeadowPROPNNumber=Plur12 seznsubj
11,,PUNCT_12 sezpunct
12sezsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 hearparataxis
13sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 sezobj
14;;PUNCT_26 sezpunct
15''PUNCT_18 callpunct
16BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing18 callcompound
17FoxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing18 callcompound
18callcallNOUNNumber=Sing26 seznsubj
19BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing21 Stinkincompound
20TarrypinTarrypinPROPNNumber=Sing19 Brerflat
21StinkinStinkinPROPNNumber=Sing23 Jimnmod:poss
22''sPART_21 Stinkincase
23JimJimPROPNNumber=Sing18 callnmod
24,,PUNCT_18 callpunct
25''PUNCT_18 callpunct
26sezsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 hearparataxis
27sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 sezobj
28,,PUNCT_30 denpunct
29enenNOUNNumber=Sing30 dencompound
30dendenNOUNNumber=Sing36 makensubj
31MissMissPROPNNumber=Sing32 Meadowscompound
32MeadowsMeadowPROPNNumber=Plur30 dennmod
33enenNOUNNumber=Sing35 galscompound
34dedeNOUNNumber=Sing35 galscompound
35galsgalNOUNNumber=Plur32 Meadowsnmod
36makemakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 sezparataxis
37greatgreatADJDegree=Pos38 wondermentamod
38wondermentwondermentNOUNNumber=Sing36 makeobj
39howhowADVPronType=Int43 talkadvmod
40BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing43 talkcompound
41FoxFoxPROPNNumber=Sing40 Brerflat
42kinkinADJDegree=Pos43 talkamod
43talktalkNOUNNumber=Sing36 makeobl
44datdatADP_50 mancase
45aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art46 waydet
46waywayNOUNNumber=Sing48 boutnmod:poss
47''sPART_46 waycase
48boutboutNOUNNumber=Sing50 mannsubj
49niceniceADJDegree=Pos50 manamod
50manmanNOUNNumber=Sing43 talknmod
51likelikeADP_52 Brercase
52BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing50 mannmod
53TarrypinTarrypinPROPNNumber=Sing52 Brerflat
54..PUNCT_2 hearpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpresentYoudat and galsvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dat=Stimulus
2say speech: assertpresentsez Miss MeadowsHeyovn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3say speech: assertpresentBrer Fox call Brer Stinkin's JimHeyovn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
4makepresenten den Miss Meadows en de galsgreat wondermentBrer kin talk dat nice man like Brer oblvn 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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