Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 63
"'Git on my tail, little Jack Sparrer,' sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'kaze I'm de'f in one year, en I can't hear out'n de udder.
Who acts: Git, kaze, little boy · What happens: say, be, not hear · To what, where: Brer Fox, de'f, out'n udder · 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 (Git, kaze, little boy), 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 | _ | 13 sez | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Git | punct |
| 3 | Git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 tail | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tail | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Git | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Jack | punct |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Jack | amod |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tail | appos |
| 10 | Sparrer | Sparrer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Jack | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Git | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Git | punct |
| 13 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Fox | compound |
| 15 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sezee | punct |
| 17 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Fox | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 de'f | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 kaze | punct |
| 20 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 de'f | nsubj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 de'f | nsubj |
| 22 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 de'f | cop |
| 23 | de'f | de'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 year | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 year | nummod |
| 26 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 de'f | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 en | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 de'f | conj |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 hear | nsubj |
| 30 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 hear | aux |
| 31 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 hear | advmod |
| 32 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 en | acl:relcl |
| 33 | out'n | out'n | X | Foreign=Yes | 35 udder | amod |
| 34 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 33 out'n | flat |
| 35 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hear | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Git on my tail | Brer Fox and sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | kaze | de'f and en | year | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not hear in a quote | can | the little boy = boy | out'n udder | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer udder=Stimulus |
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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