Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 48
"'Nobody 'roun' fer ter look atter Brer Fox--not even Brer Tukkey Buzzard ain't come ter de funer'l,' sezee. '
Who acts: Nobody, Brer · What happens: look, not come · To what, where: atter Brer Fox, ter de funer'l
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 (Nobody, Brer), 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 | _ | 9 look | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Nobody | punct |
| 3 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 look | nsubj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 roun | punct |
| 5 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Nobody | appos |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 roun | punct |
| 7 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 ter | amod |
| 8 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 look | nsubj |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | atter | att | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 Fox | amod |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Fox | compound |
| 12 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 Brer | advmod |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 Brer | advmod |
| 16 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 come | nsubj |
| 17 | Tukkey | Tukkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Brer | flat |
| 18 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tukkey | flat |
| 19 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 come | advmod |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 look | conj |
| 22 | ter | ter | X | _ | 24 funer'l | compound |
| 23 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 funer'l | compound |
| 24 | funer'l | funer'l | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sezee | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 sezee | punct |
| 27 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 funer'l | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | Nobody | atter Brer Fox | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fox=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not come in a quote | present | Brer | ter de funer'l and sezee | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location funer'l=Theme |
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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