Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 57
Brer Fox look like he dead, yit he don't do like he dead.
Who acts: Brer · What happens: look, not like · To what, where: dead
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.
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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 look | nsubj |
| 2 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 dead | case |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dead | nsubj |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 look | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 yit | punct |
| 8 | yit | yit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | parataxis |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 like | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 like | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 like | aux |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 yit | acl:relcl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dead | nsubj |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 like | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Brer | like dead | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not like | present · do-support | Brer | dead | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dead=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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