Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 52
"But dar ole Brer B'ar hung, en ef his head ain't swunk, I speck he hangin' dar yit--dat w'at I speck."
Who acts: dar ole Brer, up'n · What happens: hang, speck · To what, where: en ef, Brer, dat w'at
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 (dar ole Brer, up'n), 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 | _ | 7 hung | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 hung | cc |
| 3 | dar | dar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Brer | amod |
| 4 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Brer | amod |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hung | nsubj |
| 6 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ef | punct |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ef | compound |
| 10 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hung | obl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ai | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ai | compound |
| 13 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hung | obj |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 swunk | advmod |
| 15 | swunk | swunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hung | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 speck | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 speck | nsubj |
| 18 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hung | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 speck | obj |
| 20 | hangin | hangin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 speck | obj |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 yit | punct |
| 22 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 yit | compound |
| 23 | yit | yit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hangin | conj |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 w'at | punct |
| 25 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 w'at | compound |
| 26 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hangin | conj |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 speck | nsubj |
| 28 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hung | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang in a quote | past | dar ole Brer | en ef | swunk obl | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ai=Patient | |||
| 2 | speck in a quote | present | up'n | Brer | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speck in a quote | present | up'n | dat w'at not said here | 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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