Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 19
He dunner w'at's up, en he don't say nuthin'.
Who acts: frog · What happens: not say · To what, where: nuthin · 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 (frog), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 up | nsubj |
| 2 | dunner | dun | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 up | amod |
| 3 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 up | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 w'at | case |
| 5 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 en | punct |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 up | conj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 say | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 say | advmod |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 up | acl:relcl |
| 12 | nuthin | nuthin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | obj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 nuthin | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 up | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | present · do-support | frog | nuthin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nuthin=Topic |
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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