Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 10
Brer Fox, he say he de sharpes', but Brer Tarrypin he rock long.
Who acts: Brer Fox, Fox · What happens: say, de, rock · To what, where: sharpes · 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 Fox, Fox), 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | compound |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 de | nsubj |
| 7 | de | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 8 | sharpes | sharpe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 de | obj |
| 9 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 8 sharpes | case |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 rock | cc |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Tarrypin | compound |
| 12 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 rock | compound |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rock | nsubj |
| 14 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sharpes | conj |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 de | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Brer Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | de | past | Fox | sharpes but Tarrypin rock | long property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | rock | Fox | 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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