Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 45
"'Dey ain't no bad feelin's 'twix' us, is dey, Brer Fox?
What happens: be · To what, where: twix dey
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: 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 | _ | 4 ai | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ai | punct |
| 3 | Dey | Dey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ai | nsubj |
| 4 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 twix | advcl |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ai | advmod |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 feelin | det |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feelin | amod |
| 8 | feelin | feelin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 twix | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 feelin | case |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 twix | punct |
| 11 | twix | twix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dey | compound |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 twix | punct |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 twix | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 twix | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dey | cop |
| 16 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Fox | punct |
| 18 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Fox | compound |
| 19 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dey | conj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 dey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | twix dey and Brer Fox | 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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