Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 24
"'How's yo' ole 'oman dis time?' sez Brer Fox, sezee.
Who acts: yo · What happens: be, say · To what, where: yo, Brer Fox · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yo), 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 | _ | 14 sez | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 yo | punct |
| 3 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 yo | advmod |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 yo | cop |
| 5 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sez | nsubj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 ole | punct |
| 7 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yo | appos |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 ole | punct |
| 9 | oman | oman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yo | nmod |
| 10 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | compound |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yo | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 yo | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 yo | punct |
| 14 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Fox | compound |
| 16 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sez | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sezee | punct |
| 18 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Fox | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | yo | time | oman nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | yo | Brer Fox and sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=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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