Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 18
"'Sot en tuck it, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee. '
Who acts: Sot en · What happens: tuck, say · To what, where: sezee, 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 (Sot en), 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 | _ | 5 tuck | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 en | punct |
| 3 | Sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 en | compound |
| 4 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tuck | nsubj |
| 5 | tuck | tuck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tuck | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Fox | punct |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Fox | compound |
| 9 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tuck | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sez | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 sez | punct |
| 12 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tuck | conj |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sez | obj |
| 14 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Brer | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sezee | punct |
| 16 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Brer | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tuck | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 tuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck in a quote | infinitive | Sot en | sezee | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Sot en 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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