Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 10
"'Lor', Brer Fox, you dunner w'at trubble is.
Who acts: Brer Fox · What happens: be · To what, where: w'at trubble
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 (Brer Fox), 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 Fox | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fox | punct |
| 3 | Lor | Lor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fox | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 3 Lor | case |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fox | compound |
| 6 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 trubble | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 you | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 Fox | appos |
| 9 | dunner | dun | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 you | xcomp |
| 10 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trubble | compound |
| 11 | trubble | trubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 trubble | cop |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 trubble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Lor's Brer Fox | w'at trubble | 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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