Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 1

"BRER TARRYPIN wuz de out'nes' man," said Uncle Remus, rubbing his hands together contemplatively, and chuckling to himself in a very significant manner; "he wuz de out'nes' man er de whole gang.

Who acts: BRER, Remus, er · What happens: say, rub, chuckle, wuz, gang · To what, where: hands, Remus, significant manner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BRER, Remus, er), 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	_	2 BRER	punct
2	BRER	BRER	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
3	TARRYPIN	TARRYPIN	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 BRER	flat
4	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 BRER	conj
5	de	de	ADP	_	8 man	case
6	out'nes	out'ne	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 man	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 out'nes	case
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wuz	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 BRER	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 BRER	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Remus	compound
13	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rubbing	punct
15	rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rubbing	obj
18	together	together	ADV	_	15 rubbing	advmod
19	contemplatively	contemplatively	ADV	_	15 rubbing	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 chuckling	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 chuckling	cc
22	chuckling	chuckle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 himself	case
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 chuckling	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	29 manner	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 manner	det
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 significant	advmod
28	significant	significant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 manner	amod
29	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 chuckling	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 gang	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 wuz	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wuz	nsubj
33	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 out'nes	compound
34	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	33 wuz	flat:foreign
35	out'nes	out'ne	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 man	nmod:poss
36	'	's	PART	_	35 out'nes	case
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 er	nsubj
38	er	er	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 gang	nsubj
39	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	38 er	flat:foreign
40	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 gang	amod
41	gang	gang	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	parataxis
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	BRER and wuz de out'nes's man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rub	gerund	BRER and wuz de out'nes's man not said here	Remus's hands			contemplatively, together property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	chuckle	gerund	BRER and wuz de out'nes's man not said here		Remus	a significant manner		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
4	wuz in a quote		Remus					tree rules
5	gang in a quote		er					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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