Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 22
"Den ole Brer Bull-Frog, he holler back: 'Don'-you-ber-lieve-'im!
Who acts: Frog · What happens: holler back
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 (Frog), 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 | _ | 3 ole | punct |
| 2 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ole | compound |
| 3 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 im | nsubj |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ole | appos |
| 5 | Bull | Bull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | flat |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Frog | punct |
| 7 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 holler | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 holler | nsubj |
| 10 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ole | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 holler | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Don | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Don | punct |
| 14 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 im | nsubj |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Don | punct |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 you | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 Don | appos |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 you | punct |
| 19 | ber | ber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 im | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ber | punct |
| 21 | lieve | lieve | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 im | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 lieve | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 im | punct |
| 24 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 im | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | holler back speech: other in a quote | Frog | 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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