Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 16
Brer Fox wuz de mos' 'stonish Fox dat you ever laid eyes on.
Who acts: wuz mos, you · What happens: stonish, dat, lay · To what, where: Fox, eyes
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wuz mos, 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | compound |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | compound |
| 3 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mos | compound |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 wuz | flat:foreign |
| 5 | mos | mo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dat | nsubj |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 mos | case |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 stonish | punct |
| 8 | stonish | stonish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mos | conj |
| 9 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stonish | obj |
| 10 | dat | dat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 laid | nsubj |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 laid | advmod |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dat | ccomp |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 laid | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 laid | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stonish | infinitive | wuz mos not said here | Fox | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dat | past | wuz mos | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lay | past | you | eyes | ever | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Result |
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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