Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 46
"Brer Fox he sorter gap, he did, en say he speck he better be sa'nter'n on.
Who acts: Brer Fox, Fox, sorter gap · What happens: gap, do, say, speck, sa'nter'n on · To what, where: sorter gap, dey · 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, Fox, sorter gap), 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 | _ | 6 gap | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Fox | compound |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gap | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gap | nsubj |
| 5 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gap | compound |
| 6 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gap | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gap | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gap | conj |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 speck | nsubj |
| 14 | speck | speck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 say | ccomp |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 speck | obj |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 speck | xcomp |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sa'nter'n | aux:pass |
| 18 | sa'nter'n | sa'nter'n | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 better | csubj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 sa'nter'n | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gap in a quote | Brer Fox | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | Fox | sorter gap and en not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | sorter gap and en | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | speck in a quote | infinitive | Fox | dey | good property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | sa'nter'n on in a quote | infinitive · passive | tree rules |
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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