Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 27
En w'iles Mr. Man wuz off prepa'r'n his bresh-broom, who should come p'radin' long but Brer Fox.
Who acts: En w'iles · What happens: come
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En w'iles), 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 | En | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 w'iles | compound |
| 2 | w'iles | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Man | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wuz | compound |
| 5 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 w'iles | conj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 w'iles | compound:prt |
| 7 | prepa'r'n | prepa'r'n | CCONJ | _ | 11 broom | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 broom | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bresh | bresh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broom | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bresh | punct |
| 11 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 w'iles | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 w'iles | parataxis |
| 16 | p'radin | p'radin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 long | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 16 p'radin | case |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 come | xcomp |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 Fox | cc |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Fox | compound |
| 21 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 come | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 w'iles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | should | En w'iles and Man wuz prepa'r'n Mr.'s bresh broom | long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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