Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 34
"Brer Fox, he stay still, en Mr. Man, he talk on:
Who acts: Brer Fox, en · What happens: stay, talk on
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 (Brer Fox, en), 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 | _ | 3 Fox | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Fox | compound |
| 3 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fox | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 stay | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Man | punct |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Man | nsubj |
| 10 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Man | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | vocative |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 talk | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 talk | nsubj |
| 14 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 talk | compound:prt |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | infinitive | Brer Fox | still | Man Mr. vocative | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | talk on in a quote | en | 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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