Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / tales / Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings / XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow / 44

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 44

"Brer Rabbit make like he didn't want ter tell, but Brer Fox he 'sist en 'sist, twel at las' Brer Rabbit he up en tell Brer Fox dat he hear Jack Sparrer say all dis.

Who acts: Brer, Fox, Brer Fox, Jack · What happens: make, not want, tell, sist, hear, say · To what, where: en, twel, Brer Fox dat, dis · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, Fox, Brer Fox, Jack), 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

punctnsubjflatmarknsubjauxadvmodxcompmarkxcomppunctcccompoundnsubjnsubjpunctparataxisobjpunctconjpunctobjcasenmod:posscasecompoundoblnsubjcompound:prtconjparataxiscompoundcompoundobjnsubjadvclnsubjflatccompdetobjpunctroot"PUNCTBrerPROPNRabbitPROPNmakeVERBlikeSCONJhePRONdidAUXn'tPARTwantVERBterPARTtellVERB,PUNCTbutCCONJBrerPROPNFoxNOUNhePRON'PUNCTsistVERBenNOUN'PUNCTsistVERB,PUNCTtwelNOUNatADPlasNOUN'PARTBrerPROPNRabbitNOUNhePRONupADPenNOUNtellVERBBrerPROPNFoxNOUNdatNOUNhePRONhearVERBJackPROPNSparrerPROPNsayVERBallDETdisNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Brerpunct
2BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing4 makensubj
3RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing2 Brerflat
4makemakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
5likelikeSCONJ_9 wantmark
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 wantnsubj
7diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 wantaux
8n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg9 wantadvmod
9wantwantVERBVerbForm=Inf4 makexcomp
10terterPART_11 tellmark
11telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf9 wantxcomp
12,,PUNCT_18 sistpunct
13butbutCCONJ_18 sistcc
14BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing15 Foxcompound
15FoxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing18 sistnsubj
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 sistnsubj
17''PUNCT_18 sistpunct
18sistsistVERBVerbForm=Inf4 makeparataxis
19enenNOUNNumber=Sing18 sistobj
20''PUNCT_19 enpunct
21sistsistVERBVerbForm=Inf18 sistconj
22,,PUNCT_23 twelpunct
23tweltwelNOUNNumber=Sing21 sistobj
24atatADP_28 Rabbitcase
25laslaNOUNNumber=Plur28 Rabbitnmod:poss
26''sPART_25 lascase
27BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing28 Rabbitcompound
28RabbitrabbitNOUNNumber=Sing32 tellobl
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 tellnsubj
30upupADP_29 hecompound:prt
31enenNOUNNumber=Sing29 heconj
32telltellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 sistparataxis
33BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing35 datcompound
34FoxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing35 datcompound
35datdatNOUNNumber=Sing32 tellobj
36hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 hearnsubj
37hearhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin32 telladvcl
38JackJackPROPNNumber=Sing40 saynsubj
39SparrerSparrerPROPNNumber=Sing38 Jackflat
40saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin37 hearccomp
41allallDETPronType=Tot42 disdet
42disdisNOUNNumber=Sing40 sayobj
43..PUNCT_4 makepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1make in a quotepresentBrertree rules
2not want in a quotepast · do-supportFoxvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quoteinfinitiveFox not said herevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4sist in a quoteinfinitiveBrer Foxentree rules
5sist in a quoteinfinitiveBrer Fox not said heretweltree rules
6tell speech: assert in a quotepresentFoxBrer Fox datat las's Brer Rabbitvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dat=Recipient
7hear in a quotepresentFoxvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8say speech: assert in a quotepresentJackall disvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dis=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/22/44/