Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 15
"Den dey all laff en holler, kaze it look like Brer B'ar mo' stronger dan a steer.
Who acts: kin, Den dey · What happens: holler, look
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 (kin, Den dey), 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 | _ | 3 dey | punct |
| 2 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dey | compound |
| 3 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 holler | det |
| 5 | laff | laff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 en | compound |
| 6 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holler | compound |
| 7 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dey | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kaze | punct |
| 9 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holler | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 holler | nsubj |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 Brer | case |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 14 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Brer | flat |
| 15 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stronger | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 mo | punct |
| 17 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 Brer | acl:relcl |
| 18 | dan | dan | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 stronger | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 steer | det |
| 20 | steer | steer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dan | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | holler speech: other in a quote | kin | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | look in a quote | present | Den dey and all en holler and kaze | like Brer | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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