Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 27
"Brer Tarrypin beg en beg, but 'twan't no use.
Who acts: Brer · What happens: beg · To what, where: en beg
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), 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 | _ | 2 Brer | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 beg | nsubj |
| 3 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Brer | flat |
| 4 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beg | compound |
| 6 | beg | beg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beg | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 twa | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 twa | cc |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 twa | punct |
| 10 | twa | twa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beg | obl |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 use | advmod |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 use | det |
| 13 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 twa | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | Brer | en beg | twa no use obl | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent beg=Recipient |
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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