Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 71
"De tattlin' little bird hop on Brer Fox's toof, en den--"
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tattlin | punct |
| 2 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tattlin | compound |
| 3 | tattlin | tattlin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 hop | punct |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hop | amod |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hop | compound |
| 7 | hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tattlin | appos |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 toof | case |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fox | compound |
| 10 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 toof | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Fox | case |
| 12 | toof | toof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hop | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 den | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 den | compound |
| 15 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hop | conj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 tattlin | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tattlin | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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