Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 27
"Den ole Brer Bull-Frog talk thoo his ho'seness: 'Dar-you'll- fine-yo'-brudder!
Who acts: you · What happens: yo
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 (you), 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 | _ | 8 talk | punct |
| 2 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ole | compound |
| 3 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 talk | nsubj |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 talk | compound |
| 5 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Frog | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bull | punct |
| 7 | Frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 talk | compound |
| 8 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | thoo | thoo | ADP | _ | 11 ho'seness | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ho'seness | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ho'seness | ho'seness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 talk | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dar | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dar | punct |
| 14 | Dar | Dar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ho'seness | appos |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 yo | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 yo | nsubj |
| 17 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 yo | aux |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 yo | punct |
| 19 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 yo | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 yo | punct |
| 21 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brudder | compound |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 yo | punct |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 yo | punct |
| 24 | brudder | brudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 talk | conj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yo in a quote | future | you | 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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