Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 32
Den Brer Possum, he say whar, en Brer Rabbit, he say w'ich 'twuz over at Brer B'ar's 'simmon orchard."
Who acts: Den · What happens: say · To what, where: whar, w'ich, simmon orchard · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den), 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Den | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 en | punct |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 whar | conj |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 en | appos |
| 11 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Brer | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 say | nsubj |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | parataxis |
| 15 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 say | obj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 twuz | punct |
| 17 | twuz | twuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 w'ich | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 orchard | case |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 orchard | case |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 B'ar | compound |
| 21 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 orchard | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 B'ar | case |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 orchard | punct |
| 24 | simmon | simmon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 orchard | amod |
| 25 | orchard | orchard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 say | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Den | whar and en | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whar=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Den | w'ich and twuz | Brer B'ar's simmon orchard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent w'ich=Topic |
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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