Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 47
"'Tain't nuthin' but a box er money somebody done gone en lef' up yer in de chink er de chimbly,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
Who acts: Tai nuthin · What happens: do, chink, say · To what, where: er, Brer · 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 (Tai nuthin), 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 | _ | 5 nuthin | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 nuthin | punct |
| 3 | Tai | Tai | X | _ | 5 nuthin | compound |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 nuthin | advmod |
| 5 | nuthin | nuthin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chink | nsubj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 nuthin | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 somebody | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 somebody | det |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 er | compound |
| 10 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 money | compound |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 somebody | compound |
| 12 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 nuthin | conj |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 lef | amod |
| 14 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lef | amod |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lef | compound |
| 16 | lef | lef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 somebody | appos |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 lef | punct |
| 18 | up | up | ADV | _ | 19 yer | advmod |
| 19 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 lef | amod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 de | case |
| 21 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 yer | obl |
| 22 | chink | chink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chink | obj |
| 24 | de | de | ADP | _ | 25 chimbly | case |
| 25 | chimbly | chimbly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chink | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sez | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 sez | punct |
| 28 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 chink | conj |
| 29 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sez | obj |
| 30 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Brer | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sezee | punct |
| 32 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Brer | appos |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 chink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | chink in a quote | present | Tai nuthin | er | de chimbly | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location er=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Tai nuthin not said here | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |
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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