Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 34
"'Brer Fox died dis mornin',' sez Brer Wolf, sezee.
Who acts: Brer · What happens: die, say, sezee · 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 (Brer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:697): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sez | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 died | punct |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 died | nsubj |
| 4 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Brer | flat |
| 5 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sez | ccomp |
| 6 | dis | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 mornin | det |
| 7 | mornin | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 died | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 5 died | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 died | punct |
| 10 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sez | nsubj |
| 12 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sezee | punct |
| 14 | sezee | sezee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sez | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | past | Brer | morning | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sezee in a quote | present | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/14/34/