Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 7
Dey ain't no smart man, 'cep' w'at dey's a smarter.
Who acts: cep w'at dey · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cep w'at 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 | Dey | Dey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ai | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 man | advmod |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 man | det |
| 5 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ai | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smarter | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 cep | punct |
| 9 | cep | cep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dey | compound |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 cep | punct |
| 11 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dey | compound |
| 12 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smarter | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 smarter | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 smarter | det |
| 15 | smarter | smart | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 ai | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | cep w'at dey | smart property | 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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