Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 38
"Eve'y now en den Brer Possum think he year Brer B'ar comin', but he keep on sayin', sezee:
Who acts: Brer · What happens: think, year, keep · To what, where: sayin sezee
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 (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 | _ | 2 Eve'y | punct |
| 2 | Eve'y | Eve'y | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 den | compound |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 en | advmod |
| 4 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 den | amod |
| 5 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 think | nsubj |
| 7 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Brer | flat |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 year | nsubj |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 think | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 comin | compound |
| 12 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | flat |
| 13 | comin | comin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 year | appos |
| 14 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 13 comin | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 keep | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 keep | nsubj |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 sezee | case |
| 19 | sayin | sayin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sezee | compound |
| 20 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 19 sayin | dep |
| 21 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Brer Eve'y en den | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | year in a quote | Brer | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | present | Brer | sayin sezee | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on sezee=Location |
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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