Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 21
Brer Wolf Wuz far'ly kivver'd wid mud, en mighty nigh outer win'.
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 'd | nsubj |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | Wuz | Wuz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 4 | far'ly | far'ly | ADV | _ | 6 'd | advmod |
| 5 | kivver | kivver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 'd | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mud | amod |
| 8 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 'd | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 en | punct |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mud | conj |
| 11 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 win | amod |
| 12 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 13 outer | advmod |
| 13 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 win | amod |
| 14 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 en | appos |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 win | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 'd | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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