Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 33
Miss Brune wuz Brer B'ar's ole 'oman, en Miss Brindle wuz his gal.
Who acts: ole oman · What happens: wuz · To what, where: gal
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ole oman), 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 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Brune | compound |
| 2 | Brune | Brune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | compound |
| 3 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 B'ar | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 B'ar | compound |
| 5 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 oman | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 B'ar | case |
| 7 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 oman | amod |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 ole | punct |
| 9 | oman | oman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wuz | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 oman | conj |
| 12 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 en | appos |
| 13 | Brindle | Brindle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Miss | flat |
| 14 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gal | nmod:poss |
| 16 | gal | gal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wuz | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz | present | Brer B'ar Brune wuz's ole oman and en | B'ar's gal | 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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