Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 9
"Brer Fox feel so bad, en he git so mad 'bout Brer Rabbit, dat he dunner w'at ter do, en he look mighty down-hearted.
Who acts: Brer Fox, Fox, dat · What happens: feel, git, do, en, look · To what, where: ter
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 Fox, Fox, dat), 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 | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Fox | compound |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 bad | advmod |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 git | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 git | compound |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 git | nsubj |
| 10 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | conj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 mad | advmod |
| 12 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 git | appos |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 mad | punct |
| 14 | bout | bout | ADP | _ | 16 Rabbit | case |
| 15 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Rabbit | compound |
| 16 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dat | punct |
| 18 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dunner | nsubj |
| 20 | dunner | dun | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 dat | conj |
| 21 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ter | compound |
| 22 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dunner | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 mad | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 en | punct |
| 25 | en | en | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 feel | conj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 en | obj |
| 27 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 en | xcomp |
| 28 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 look | xcomp |
| 29 | down | down | ADV | _ | 31 hearted | advmod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 down | punct |
| 31 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 mighty | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | infinitive | Brer Fox | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | git in a quote | Fox | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | dat | bout Brer Rabbit | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | en in a quote | infinitive | Brer Fox not said here | ter | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look in a quote | infinitive | Brer Fox not said here | mighty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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