Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 37
"'Aha!' sez Brer Fox, sezee; 'you er dar, is you?' sezee. '
Who acts: you · What happens: say, er, be · To what, where: Brer Fox, dar, you · 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), 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 | _ | 6 sez | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Aha | punct |
| 3 | Aha | aha | INTJ | _ | 6 sez | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Aha | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Aha | punct |
| 6 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fox | compound |
| 8 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sez | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sezee | punct |
| 10 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Fox | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 er | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 er | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 er | nsubj |
| 14 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sez | parataxis |
| 15 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 er | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 you | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 you | cop |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 er | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 er | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 er | punct |
| 21 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 er | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sez | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 Fox and sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic | |||||
| 2 | er in a quote | present | you | dar | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | 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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