Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 30
"'Too menny fr'en's spiles de dinner,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee; 'w'ich un's dis?' sezee.
Who acts: spiles · What happens: say · To what, where: Brer · 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 (spiles), 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 | _ | 12 sez | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 spiles | punct |
| 3 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 4 menny | advmod |
| 4 | menny | menny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fr'en | amod |
| 5 | fr'en | fr'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spiles | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 fr'en | case |
| 7 | spiles | spile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sez | nsubj |
| 8 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 dinner | compound |
| 9 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spiles | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spiles | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 spiles | punct |
| 12 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sez | obj |
| 14 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Brer | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sezee | punct |
| 16 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Brer | appos |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 dis | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 un | punct |
| 19 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 un | compound |
| 20 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dis | compound |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 un | case |
| 22 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sezee | compound |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 dis | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 dis | punct |
| 25 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sez | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | menny fr'en's spiles and de dinner | Brer | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent brer=Theme sezee=Manner |
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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