Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 33

"He weren't zackly drowndid, honey," replied the old man, With an air of cautious reserve. "

Who acts: boy, zackly drowndid honey · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: zackly drowndid honey, old man · 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 (boy, zackly drowndid honey), 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 honey	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 honey	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 honey	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 zackly	advmod
5	zackly	zackly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 honey	amod
6	drowndid	drowndid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 honey	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 honey	punct
8	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 honey	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 honey	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 air	punct
16	With	with	ADP	_	18 air	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 air	det
18	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 reserve	case
20	cautious	cautious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 reserve	amod
21	reserve	reserve	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 air	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	boy	zackly drowndid honey					tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	zackly drowndid honey	the old man				with a air of cautious reserve	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic

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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