Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 3
"'Heyo, Brer Tarrypin, whar you bin dis long-come-short?' sez Brer Fox, sezee.
Who acts: Heyo · What happens: bin, say · To what, where: dis, Brer Fox · 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 (Heyo), 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 | _ | 10 bin | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Heyo | punct |
| 3 | Heyo | Heyo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bin | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Brer | punct |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Heyo | conj |
| 6 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 whar | punct |
| 8 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Heyo | appos |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 bin | nsubj |
| 10 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sez | csubj |
| 11 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bin | obj |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 come | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 long | punct |
| 14 | come | come | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bin | obj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 short | punct |
| 16 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 come | amod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 bin | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 bin | punct |
| 19 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Fox | compound |
| 21 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sez | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sezee | punct |
| 23 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Fox | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin in a quote | present | Heyo and Brer | dis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask in a quote | present | Brer Fox and sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=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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