Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 28
Brer Fox done been fool so much dat he look like he termin' fer ter have Brer Tarrypin haslett.
Who acts: Brer Fox, Brer, fer ter · What happens: do, be, look, have · To what, where: done fool, Brer
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, Brer, fer ter), 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | compound |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fool | nsubj |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fool | amod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 fool | cop |
| 5 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 dat | advmod |
| 8 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fool | nmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 look | nsubj |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fool | parataxis |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 termin | case |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 termin | nsubj |
| 13 | termin | termin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obl |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 termin | punct |
| 15 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 ter | amod |
| 16 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 look | parataxis |
| 18 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 19 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Brer | flat |
| 20 | haslett | haslett | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Brer | list |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fool | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | participle | Brer Fox | done fool | dat nmod | tree rules | |||
| 3 | look | present | Brer | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | have | present | fer ter | Brer | like termin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brer=Patient |
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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