Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 17
I hope dey er well, Brer Bull-frog, kaze dis day you got some bizness wid me w'at'll las' you a mighty long time.'
Who acts: I, you, Brer frog, w'at · What happens: hope, get, wi, time · To what, where: dey, bizness, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (I, you, Brer frog, w'at), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hope | obj |
| 4 | er | er | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 2 hope | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 er | fixed |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 frog | punct |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 frog | compound |
| 8 | Bull | Bull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | flat |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 frog | punct |
| 10 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wid | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 day | punct |
| 12 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | compound |
| 13 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | compound |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frog | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 day | acl:relcl |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 bizness | det |
| 18 | bizness | bizness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obj |
| 19 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hope | ccomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 wid | obj |
| 21 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 time | nsubj |
| 22 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 time | aux |
| 23 | las | la | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 time | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 23 las | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 time | nsubj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 27 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 time | amod |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 time | amod |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wid | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | dey | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | you | some bizness | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bizness=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wi | past | Brer frog and kaze dis day | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | time | future | w'at | 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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