Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 21
Brer Tarrypin," continued Uncle Remus, in a tone at once confidential and argumentative, "weren't much bigger'n de pa'm er my han', en it look mighty funny fer ter year 'im braggin' 'bout how he kin out-pull Brer B'ar.
Who acts: Brer, pa, Remus · What happens: continue, not be, be, look, kin, pull · To what, where: Uncle Remus, tone, year im braggin, Brer · 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, pa, Remus), 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 | 5 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brer | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brer | punct |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Remus | compound |
| 7 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tone | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tone | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tone | det |
| 11 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 confidential | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 confidential | advmod |
| 14 | confidential | confidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tone | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 argumentative | cc |
| 16 | argumentative | argumentative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 confidential | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 much | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 much | punct |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 much | cop |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pa | amod |
| 22 | bigger'n | bigger'n | CCONJ | _ | 23 de | cc |
| 23 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 much | conj |
| 24 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 'm | nsubj |
| 25 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 continued | parataxis |
| 26 | er | er | ADP | _ | 30 en | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 han | nmod:poss |
| 28 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 en | compound |
| 29 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 28 han | dep |
| 30 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 look | obl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 look | nsubj |
| 32 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 'm | parataxis |
| 33 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 year | amod |
| 34 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 year | amod |
| 35 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ter | compound |
| 36 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 year | compound |
| 37 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 braggin | compound |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 year | punct |
| 39 | im | im | X | _ | 40 braggin | compound |
| 40 | braggin | braggin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 look | obj |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 braggin | punct |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 braggin | punct |
| 43 | bout | bout | SCONJ | _ | 46 kin | mark |
| 44 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 46 kin | advmod |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 kin | nsubj |
| 46 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 pull | advcl |
| 47 | out | out | ADV | _ | 46 kin | advmod |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 out | punct |
| 49 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 look | conj |
| 50 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 pull | obj |
| 51 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Brer | flat |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue in a quote | past | Brer | Uncle Remus | a tone at confidential | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is | past | much property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | look | present | pa | year im braggin | er han en | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme braggin=Attribute | |||
| 5 | kin | past | Remus | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | pull | infinitive | pa not said here | Brer | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent brer=Result |
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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