Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 17
Brer Fox, he ain't sayin' nuthin', but Brer Bull-Frog, settin' on de bank, he hear Brer Tarrypin, he did, en he holler back:
Who acts: Fox · What happens: hear, do, holler back · To what, where: Brer, de bank
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox), 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 ai | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ai | nsubj |
| 5 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sayin | advmod |
| 7 | sayin | sayin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ai | obj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 nuthin | punct |
| 9 | nuthin | nuthin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sayin | conj |
| 10 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 9 nuthin | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 Brer | cc |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 nuthin | conj |
| 13 | Bull | Bull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Brer | flat |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Frog | punct |
| 15 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Brer | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 settin | punct |
| 17 | settin | settin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nuthin | conj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 hear | punct |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 bank | case |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 bank | compound |
| 21 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hear | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bank | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hear | nsubj |
| 24 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 settin | acl:relcl |
| 25 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 hear | obj |
| 26 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Brer | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 did | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 did | nsubj |
| 29 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ai | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 holler | punct |
| 31 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 holler | compound |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 holler | nsubj |
| 33 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 did | obj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 33 holler | advmod |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Fox | Brer | de bank | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer brer=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | do | past | Fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | holler back speech: other | Fox | tree rules |
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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