Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 45
"'Co'se,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'w'en Brer Jack Sparrer tell me dat I flew up, I did, en I use some langwidge w'ich I'm mighty glad dey weren't no ladies 'round' nowhars so dey could hear me go on, sezee.
Who acts: you, I, langwidge w'ich, dey, me · What happens: say, tell, fly up, do, use, be · To what, where: Brer, Co'se, me, en, mighty glad dey, round · 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 (you, I, langwidge w'ich, dey), 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 | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Co'se | punct |
| 3 | Co'se | Co'se | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sez | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 sez | punct |
| 6 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | advcl |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sez | obj |
| 8 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sezee | punct |
| 10 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 w'en | punct |
| 13 | w'en | w'en | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 tell | dep |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 w'en | flat |
| 15 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | flat |
| 16 | Sparrer | Sparrer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | flat |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | obj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 flew | nsubj |
| 21 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | ccomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 flew | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 did | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 did | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 use | punct |
| 27 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 use | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 use | nsubj |
| 29 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | conj |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 w'ich | det |
| 31 | langwidge | langwidge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 w'ich | compound |
| 32 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 round | nsubj |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 dey | nsubj |
| 34 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 dey | cop |
| 35 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 dey | amod |
| 36 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 dey | amod |
| 37 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 w'ich | acl:relcl |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 round | cop |
| 39 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 round | advmod |
| 40 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 ladies | det |
| 41 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 round | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 41 ladies | case |
| 43 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 use | parataxis |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 round | punct |
| 45 | nowhars | nowhar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 use | obj |
| 46 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 49 hear | mark |
| 47 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 hear | nsubj |
| 48 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 hear | aux |
| 49 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 use | advcl |
| 50 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 hear | obj |
| 51 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 hear | xcomp |
| 52 | on | on | ADV | _ | 51 go | advmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 sezee | punct |
| 54 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 go | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you not said here | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Co'se | me | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fly up in a quote | past | I | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | use in a quote | present | I | en | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nowhar=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | I | mighty glad dey | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not is a in a quote | past | some langwidge w'ich | no ladies's round | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | hear in a quote | could | dey | me | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | go on in a quote | infinitive | me not said here | sezee | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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