Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 29
Den Brer Tarrypin beg Brer Fox not fer ter drown 'im, but Brer Fox ain't makin' no prommus, en den he beg Brer Fox fer ter bu'n' 'im, kase he done useter fier, but Brer Fox don't say nuthin'.
Who acts: Brer · What happens: drown, beg, bu'n, do, not say · To what, where: en den, useter fier, nuthin · 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), 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 beg | compound |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | beg | beg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 drown | nsubj |
| 6 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 fer | advmod |
| 8 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 ter | amod |
| 9 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 drown | nsubj |
| 10 | drown | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 im | punct |
| 12 | im | im | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drown | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ai | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 ai | cc |
| 15 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Fox | compound |
| 16 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ai | nsubj |
| 17 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Vrnc Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 drown | parataxis |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 makin | advmod |
| 19 | makin | makin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ai | obl |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 makin | punct |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 prommus | det |
| 22 | prommus | prommus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ai | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 den | punct |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 den | compound |
| 25 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prommus | appos |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 beg | nsubj |
| 27 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 25 den | acl:relcl |
| 28 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 bu'n | nsubj |
| 29 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fer | compound |
| 30 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bu'n | compound |
| 31 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bu'n | compound |
| 32 | bu'n | bu'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 beg | ccomp |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 bu'n | punct |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 im | punct |
| 35 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 bu'n | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 kase | punct |
| 37 | kase | kase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 im | appos |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 done | nsubj |
| 39 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 kase | acl:relcl |
| 40 | useter | uset | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 41 fier | amod |
| 41 | fier | fier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 done | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 say | punct |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 48 say | cc |
| 44 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 say | nsubj |
| 45 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Brer | flat |
| 46 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 say | aux |
| 47 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 say | advmod |
| 48 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ai | conj |
| 49 | nuthin | nuthin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 say | obj |
| 50 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 49 nuthin | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 drown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | present | Brer Den beg | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | Brer | en den not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent den=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | bu'n | Brer | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | do | past | Brer | useter fier | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fier=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | not say speech: assert | present · do-support | Brer | nuthin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nuthin=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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