Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 24
"'Now den, ladies en gents,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'you all go wid Brer B'ar up dar in de woods en I'll stay yer, en w'en you year me holler, den's de time fer Brer B'ar fer ter see ef he kin haul in de slack er de rope.
Who acts: en gents, you, B'ar dar en, W'en · What happens: say, go, stay, holler, see, haul · To what, where: Brer, yer, ef, de de 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 (en gents, you, B'ar dar en, W'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 | _ | 8 gents | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 den | punct |
| 3 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 den | advmod |
| 4 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 en | compound |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ladies | punct |
| 6 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 den | conj |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gents | compound |
| 8 | gents | gent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sez | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gents | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 gents | punct |
| 11 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sez | obj |
| 13 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Brer | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sezee | punct |
| 15 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Brer | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 go | advmod |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sez | conj |
| 21 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 B'ar | amod |
| 22 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 B'ar | compound |
| 23 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 en | compound |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 B'ar | compound:prt |
| 25 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 en | compound |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 woods | case |
| 27 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 woods | compound |
| 28 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dar | nmod |
| 29 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stay | nsubj |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 stay | nsubj |
| 31 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 stay | aux |
| 32 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 go | ccomp |
| 33 | yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 stay | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 w'en | punct |
| 35 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 w'en | compound |
| 36 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stay | obl |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 holler | nsubj |
| 38 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 holler | compound |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 year | goeswith |
| 40 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 w'en | appos |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 fer | punct |
| 42 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fer | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 den | case |
| 44 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 fer | amod |
| 45 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fer | compound |
| 46 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 holler | conj |
| 47 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 fer | appos |
| 48 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Brer | flat |
| 49 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 ter | compound |
| 50 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 Brer | appos |
| 51 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 stay | conj |
| 52 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 see | obj |
| 53 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 haul | nsubj |
| 54 | kin | kin | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 haul | aux |
| 55 | haul | haul | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 ef | acl:relcl |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 61 rope | case |
| 57 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 rope | amod |
| 58 | slack | slack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 er | compound |
| 59 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 de | compound |
| 60 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 rope | compound |
| 61 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 haul | obl |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | en gents | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay in a quote | future | B'ar dar en | yer | en w'en obl | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme yer=Location | |||
| 4 | holler speech: other in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | see in a quote | infinitive | B'ar dar en not said here | ef | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ef=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | haul in a quote | W'en | ef not said here | de de rope | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ef=Theme |
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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