Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 1

"ONE day," said Uncle Remus, sharpening his knife on the palm of his hand--"one day Brer Fox strike up wid Brer Tarrypin right in de middle er de big road.

Who acts: ONE day, day Brer · What happens: say, sharpen, strike up, wi · To what, where: knife, palm, Brer, de middle er · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ONE day, day 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	_	6 said	punct
2	ONE	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Remus	compound
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sharpening	punct
10	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 knife	nmod:poss
12	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sharpening	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 palm	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palm	det
15	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sharpening	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 hand	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hand	nmod:poss
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 palm	nmod
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Brer	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 day	nummod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Brer	compound
23	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 wid	nsubj
24	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Brer	flat
25	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 Brer	acl:relcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 strike	compound:prt
27	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
28	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 wid	obj
29	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Brer	flat
30	right	right	ADV	_	34 er	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 er	case
32	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 er	compound
33	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 er	compound
34	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wid	obl
35	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	34 er	conj
36	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 road	amod
37	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 de	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	ONE day			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sharpen	gerund	ONE day not said here	Remus's knife	the palm of Remus's hand	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=Patient
3	strike up in a quote	present	day Brer not said here			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	wi in a quote	past	day Brer	Brer	de middle er	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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