Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 47
"Brer Fox say w'ich he don't have no onfrennelness, en wid dat Brer Rabbit cut Brer Fox loose des in time fer ter hear Mr. Man w'isserlin up his dogs, en one went one way en de udder went nudder."
Who acts: Brer, onfrennelness, en, en udder · What happens: say, not have, cut, hear, go · To what, where: w'ich, Brer Fox, Man w'isserlin, one way · Speech: someone speaks here
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, onfrennelness, en, en udder), 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 say | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Brer | flat |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 have | advmod |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 say | ccomp |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 onfrennelness | det |
| 11 | onfrennelness | onfrennelness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dat | punct |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dat | compound |
| 14 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dat | amod |
| 15 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 onfrennelness | conj |
| 16 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 dat | appos |
| 17 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Brer | flat |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | parataxis |
| 19 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Fox | compound |
| 20 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | obj |
| 21 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 des | amod |
| 22 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Fox | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 ter | case |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ter | compound |
| 25 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ter | compound |
| 26 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 des | nmod |
| 27 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | parataxis |
| 28 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Man | nmod:desc |
| 29 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 w'isserlin | compound |
| 30 | w'isserlin | w'isserlin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hear | obj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 dogs | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 33 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 went | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 en | punct |
| 35 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 went | nsubj |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 en | flat |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 hear | parataxis |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 way | nummod |
| 39 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 went | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | en | en | X | Foreign=Yes | 42 udder | compound |
| 41 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 40 en | flat:foreign |
| 42 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 went | nsubj |
| 43 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 went | ccomp |
| 44 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 went | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Brer | w'ich | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not have in a quote | present · do-support | Brer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cut in a quote | past | no onfrennelness and en wid dat | Brer Fox and loose des in time fer ter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fox=Product | ||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | infinitive | Man w'isserlin | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer w'isserlin=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | past | en | up Brer's dogs | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | go in a quote | past | en udder | one way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nudder=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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