Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 14

"'Hit look like 'periently dat de ole hardshell ain't nowhars 'longside er dis crowd, yit yer I is, en I'm de same man w'at show Brer Rabbit dat he ain't de swiffes'; en I'm de same man w'at kin show Brer B'ar dat he ain't de stronges',' sezee.

Who acts: ai, one eye, longside en, en, de same w'at kin · What happens: hit, look, not longside, be, show · To what, where: longside en, de same man w'at, Rabbit dat, de same w'at kin, Brer dat

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 (ai, one eye, longside en, en), 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	_	4 look	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Hit	punct
3	Hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 look	advcl
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 dat	case
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 dat	punct
7	periently	periently	ADV	_	8 dat	advmod
8	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
9	de	de	ADP	_	11 hardshell	case
10	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hardshell	amod
11	hardshell	hardshell	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 en	obl
12	ai	ai	X	Foreign=Yes	16 longside	nsubj
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 longside	advmod
14	nowhars	nowhar	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 longside	nmod:poss
15	'	's	PART	_	14 nowhars	case
16	longside	longside	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 en	compound
17	er	e	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 crowd	amod
18	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crowd	compound
19	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 longside	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 yit	punct
21	yit	yit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crowd	conj
22	yer	y	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 crowd	amod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 yer	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 en	cop
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 is	punct
26	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 show	nsubj
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 w'at	nsubj
28	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 w'at	cop
29	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 w'at	amod
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 w'at	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 w'at	compound
32	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 en	acl:relcl
33	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 look	parataxis
34	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Rabbit	compound
35	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 dat	compound
36	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 show	obj
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 ai	nsubj
38	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 dat	acl:relcl
39	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 ai	advmod
40	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	39 n't	obl
41	swiffes	swiffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 de	appos
42	'	's	PART	_	41 swiffes	case
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 kin	punct
44	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 kin	nsubj
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 kin	nsubj
46	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 kin	cop
47	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 kin	amod
48	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 kin	amod
49	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 w'at	compound
50	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 kin	compound
51	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 show	nsubj
52	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 look	parataxis
53	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 dat	compound
54	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Brer	flat
55	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 show	obj
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 ai	nsubj
57	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 dat	acl:relcl
58	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 stronges	advmod
59	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	60 stronges	compound
60	stronges	stronge	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 sezee	nmod:poss
61	',	',	PART	_	60 stronges	case
62	'	's	PART	_	60 stronges	case
63	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 ai	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hit in a quote	participle				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look in a quote	present			like dat	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	not longside in a quote		ai			tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present		longside en	de ole hardshell	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	one eye and en = eye	de same man w'at		tree rules
6	show in a quote	present	longside en	Rabbit dat		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dat=Recipient
7	is a in a quote	present	en	de same w'at kin		tree rules
8	show in a quote	present	de same w'at kin	Brer dat		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dat=Recipient

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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