Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 29
Dis sorter stunted Brer Fox, en w'en he gedder his 'membunce de mos' he seed wuz a pot er greens turnt over in de fireplace, en a broke cheer.
Who acts: Dis sorter, Fox, pot er · What happens: stunt, wuz, green · To what, where: Brer Fox, seed wuz
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 (Dis sorter, Fox, pot er), 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 | Dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sorter | compound |
| 2 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stunted | nsubj |
| 3 | stunted | stunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Fox | compound |
| 5 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stunted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gedder | punct |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 w'en | compound |
| 8 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gedder | nsubj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gedder | nsubj |
| 10 | gedder | gedd | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 stunted | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 membunce | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 membunce | punct |
| 13 | membunce | membunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gedder | obl |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 membunce | flat:foreign |
| 15 | mos | mo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wuz | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 mos | case |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wuz | nsubj |
| 18 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wuz | compound |
| 19 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gedder | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 er | det |
| 21 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 er | compound |
| 22 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 greens | nsubj |
| 23 | greens | green | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 wuz | acl:relcl |
| 24 | turnt | turnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 greens | xcomp |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 fireplace | case |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 fireplace | case |
| 27 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fireplace | amod |
| 28 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 turnt | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 en | punct |
| 30 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fireplace | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 cheer | det |
| 32 | broke | broke | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cheer | amod |
| 33 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fireplace | nmod:unmarked |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stunt | past | Dis sorter | Brer Fox | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wuz | Fox | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | green | present | a pot er | mos's seed wuz not said here | turnt property | 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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