Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 18
"Den dey all laff 'gin, en Brer B'ar, he ups en sez, sezee: 'We ain't got no rope,' sezee.
Who acts: dey, Den dey, We · What happens: up, say, not get · To what, where: sezee, rope · 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 (dey, Den dey, We), 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 | 16 sez | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 laff | det |
| 5 | laff | laff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gin | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 laff | case |
| 7 | gin | gin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dey | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 en | punct |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dey | conj |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 en | appos |
| 11 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Brer | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ups | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ups | nsubj |
| 14 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 en | compound |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sez | nsubj |
| 16 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sezee | punct |
| 18 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sez | obj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 21 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 got | nsubj |
| 22 | ai | ai | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 got | aux |
| 23 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 got | advmod |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sez | conj |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 rope | det |
| 26 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sezee | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 sezee | punct |
| 29 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | up in a quote | dey | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Den dey and en | sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not get in a quote | We | no rope | sezee obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rope=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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