Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 16
Lor', Brer Fox, you dunner w'at trubble is,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee.
Who acts: Brer Fox, dunner w'at trubble · What happens: be, say · To what, where: dunner w'at trubble, Brer · 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 (Brer Fox, dunner w'at trubble), 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 | Lor | Lor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fox | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 1 Lor | case |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fox | compound |
| 4 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 trubble | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Fox | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 trubble | nsubj |
| 7 | dunner | dun | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 trubble | amod |
| 8 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trubble | compound |
| 9 | trubble | trubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 trubble | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
| 13 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 trubble | acl:relcl |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | obj |
| 15 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sezee | punct |
| 17 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 trubble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Lor's Brer Fox | dunner w'at trubble | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | dunner w'at trubble not said here | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |
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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