Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 27
"Brer B'ar he wrop de bed-cord roun' his han,' en wink at de gals, en wid dat he gin a big juk, but Brer Tarrypin ain't budge.
Who acts: dey, Brer · What happens: gin, not be · To what, where: big juk
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, Brer), 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 | _ | 5 wrop | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 B'ar | compound |
| 3 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wrop | compound |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wrop | nsubj |
| 5 | wrop | wrop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | de | de | ADP | _ | 10 roun | case |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cord | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 bed | punct |
| 9 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roun | compound |
| 10 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrop | nmod |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 roun | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 han | nmod:poss |
| 13 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roun | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wink | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 wink | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wink | compound |
| 17 | wink | wink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 han | appos |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 gals | case |
| 19 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gals | amod |
| 20 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wink | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dat | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wid | compound |
| 23 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dat | compound |
| 24 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 han | appos |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gin | nsubj |
| 26 | gin | gin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 24 dat | acl:relcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 juk | det |
| 28 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 juk | amod |
| 29 | juk | juk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gin | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 budge | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 budge | cc |
| 32 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 budge | nsubj |
| 33 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Brer | flat |
| 34 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Vrnc Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 budge | cop |
| 35 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 budge | advmod |
| 36 | budge | budge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wrop | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gin in a quote | present | dey | a big juk | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | Brer | budge property | tree rules |
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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