Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 7
Mr. Fox is "outdone" by Mr. Buzzard IX.
Who acts: Buzzard · What happens: outdo · To what, where: Mr. Fox
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buzzard), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | compound |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 outdone | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 outdone | aux:pass |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 outdone | punct |
| 5 | outdone | outdo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 outdone | punct |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Buzzard | case |
| 8 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Buzzard | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 outdone | obl:agent |
| 10 | IX | IX | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Buzzard | flat |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 outdone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outdo in a quote | present · passive | Buzzard Mr. | Mr. Fox | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=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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