Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 29
"Sho nuff, Brer Fox look over de bank, he did, en dar wuz n'er Fox lookin' at 'im outer de water.
Who acts: Sho nuff, nuff · What happens: look, do · To what, where: outer de water · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sho nuff, nuff), 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 | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 2 | Sho | Sho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nuff | compound |
| 3 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Brer | punct |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nuff | appos |
| 6 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 did | ccomp |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 bank | case |
| 9 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bank | amod |
| 10 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dar | compound |
| 16 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wuz | compound |
| 17 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 n'er | compound |
| 18 | n'er | n'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lookin | compound |
| 19 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lookin | compound |
| 20 | lookin | lookin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | parataxis |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 lookin | punct |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 water | case |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 water | punct |
| 24 | im | im | X | Foreign=Yes | 27 water | nsubj |
| 25 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 water | amod |
| 26 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 27 water | compound |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | Sho nuff | over de bank | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over bank=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | nuff | outer de water | 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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