Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 20
"'Likewise hit bu'n yo' tail off,' sez Brer Fox, sezee.
Who acts: hit, Brer Fox · What happens: burn off, say, sezee · To what, where: tail · 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 (hit, Brer Fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:738): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bu'n | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 bu'n | punct |
| 3 | Likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 5 bu'n | advmod |
| 4 | hit | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bu'n | nsubj |
| 5 | bu'n | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | yo | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tail | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 yo | punct |
| 8 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bu'n | obj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 bu'n | compound:prt |
| 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 bu'n | parataxis |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Fox | compound |
| 14 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sez | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sezee | punct |
| 16 | sezee | sezee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sez | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bu'n | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn off in a quote | present | hit = it | yo's tail | likewise property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Brer Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sezee in a quote | present | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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