Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 15
"'Howdy, Brer Bull-frog, howdy!
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog. 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.
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 | _ | 8 frog | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Howdy | punct |
| 3 | Howdy | Howdy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 frog | compound |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Brer | punct |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Howdy | conj |
| 6 | Bull | Bull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 frog | punct |
| 8 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 howdy | punct |
| 10 | howdy | howdy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 frog | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 frog | 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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