Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 60
Brer Wolf mighty smart, but nex' time you hear fum 'im, honey, he'll be in trouble.
Who acts: you, Brer · What happens: hear, be · To what, where: fum, trouble
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, 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 | 4 smart | nsubj |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 smart | amod |
| 4 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hear | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 hear | cc |
| 7 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | compound |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 nex | punct |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hear | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 hear | nsubj |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 smart | conj |
| 12 | fum | fum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hear | obj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 im | punct |
| 14 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fum | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 honey | punct |
| 16 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fum | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 trouble | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 trouble | nsubj |
| 19 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 trouble | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 trouble | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 trouble | case |
| 22 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smart | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | you | fum and im and honey | time | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fum=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | future | Brer | trouble | 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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