Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 22
"'You run 'long home, en git on de bed, en make like you dead, en don't you say nothin' twel Brer Rabbit come en put his han's onter you,' sez Brer Wolf, sezee, 'en ef we don't git 'im fer supper, Joe's dead en Sal's a widder,' sezee.
Who acts: You, en, en ef, dead en · What happens: run, make, not say, come, put, say · To what, where: long home, nothin, onter, Brer, widder · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, en, en ef, dead en), 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 | _ | 4 run | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
| 3 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 run | nsubj |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | advcl |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 home | punct |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 home | amod |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 run | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 git | punct |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 git | compound |
| 10 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 home | appos |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 bed | compound |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 git | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 en | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 home | conj |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 make | obl |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 make | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 en | punct |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | conj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 say | aux |
| 23 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 say | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 say | nsubj |
| 25 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | parataxis |
| 26 | nothin | nothin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 say | obj |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 twel | punct |
| 28 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 nothin | conj |
| 29 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 twel | appos |
| 30 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Brer | flat |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 say | ccomp |
| 32 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 put | nsubj |
| 33 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 come | obl |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 han | nmod:poss |
| 35 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 onter | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 han | case |
| 37 | onter | onter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 put | obj |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 put | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 sez | punct |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 sez | punct |
| 41 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 say | conj |
| 42 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 sez | obj |
| 43 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Brer | flat |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 sezee | punct |
| 45 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Brer | appos |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 git | punct |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 49 ef | punct |
| 48 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 ef | compound |
| 49 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 git | nsubj |
| 50 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 53 git | nsubj |
| 51 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 git | aux |
| 52 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 53 git | advmod |
| 53 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sez | obl |
| 54 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 53 git | punct |
| 55 | im | im | X | Foreign=Yes | 57 supper | dep |
| 56 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 57 supper | amod |
| 57 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 git | conj |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 66 widder | punct |
| 59 | Joe | Joe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 62 en | nmod:poss |
| 60 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 59 Joe | case |
| 61 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 en | amod |
| 62 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 widder | nsubj |
| 63 | Sal | Sal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 62 en | appos |
| 64 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 66 widder | cop |
| 65 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 66 widder | det |
| 66 | widder | widder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 supper | appos |
| 67 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 69 sezee | punct |
| 68 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 69 sezee | punct |
| 69 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 widder | conj |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | present | You | long home and en | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | like you; dead property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert in a quote | present · do-support | you | nothin and twel | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | put in a quote | past | en | Brer's han's onter | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent onter=Asset you=Goal | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you not said here | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | ||||
| 7 | not git in a quote | present · do-support | en ef | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | present | Joe's dead en | a widder and sezee | 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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