Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 8
"Honey, dey ain't been no wusser skeer'd beas' sence de worl' begin dan dish yer same Brer Rabbit.
Who acts: Honey · What happens: not be, begin · To what, where: wusser skeer, dan dish
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 (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 | _ | 2 Honey | punct |
| 2 | Honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 begin | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ai | punct |
| 4 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ai | compound |
| 5 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Honey | appos |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 skeer | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 skeer | cop |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 skeer | det |
| 9 | wusser | wusser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skeer | compound |
| 10 | skeer | skeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ai | nmod |
| 11 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 14 sence | punct |
| 12 | beas | bea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sence | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 12 beas | case |
| 14 | sence | sence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skeer | conj |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 worl | compound |
| 16 | worl | worl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sence | appos |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 worl | punct |
| 18 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | dan | dan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dish | compound |
| 20 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 begin | obj |
| 21 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 Rabbit | nmod:poss |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Rabbit | amod |
| 23 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Rabbit | compound |
| 24 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 begin | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | participle | no wusser skeer and beas's sence | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | begin in a quote | present | Honey | dan dish | yer's same Brer Rabbit obl | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Eventuality |
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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