Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 42
"'Dat's so, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'you duz look sorter stove up.
Who acts: Dat, you · What happens: be, duz, look, stove up · To what, where: Brer Fox, sorter
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 (Dat, you), 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 | _ | 8 Fox | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fox | punct |
| 3 | Dat | Dat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fox | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Fox | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 Fox | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fox | punct |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fox | compound |
| 8 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sezee | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 sezee | punct |
| 11 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Fox | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 duz | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 duz | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 duz | nsubj |
| 15 | duz | duz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Fox | parataxis |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 duz | xcomp |
| 17 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 look | obj |
| 18 | stove | stove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 look | xcomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 stove | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fox | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Dat | Brer Fox and sezee | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | duz in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | sorter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stove up in a quote | infinitive | you 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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