Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 12
He tu'n 'im over, he did, en 'zamine 'im, en say, sezee:
Who acts: Brer, zamine im · What happens: im over, do, say · To what, where: tu'n, sezee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, zamine im), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tu'n | nsubj |
| 2 | tu'n | tu'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 im | punct |
| 4 | im | im | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tu'n | acl |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 im | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 tu'n | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tu'n | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 en | punct |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tu'n | conj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 zamine | punct |
| 12 | zamine | zamine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 im | compound |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 zamine | punct |
| 14 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 say | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 en | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 im | conj |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 en | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sezee | punct |
| 19 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | obj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 tu'n | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | im over | participle | tu'n and en not said here | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Brer | tu'n and en not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tu'n=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | zamine im and en | sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=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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