Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 7
Ef dish yer man is bleedzd fer ter have a name, den I'm done, kaze you'll hatter go fudder dan me.
Who acts: Ef dish, bleedzd fer ter, I, you · What happens: be, have, go · To what, where: name, den, fudder
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 (Ef dish, bleedzd fer ter, I, 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 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dish | compound |
| 2 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bleedzd | nsubj |
| 3 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 man | nmod:poss |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bleedzd | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bleedzd | cop |
| 6 | bleedzd | bleedzd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ter | amod |
| 7 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 ter | amod |
| 8 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 name | det |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 den | punct |
| 13 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 name | appos |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | cop |
| 16 | done | done | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 den | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kaze | punct |
| 18 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 20 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | aux |
| 21 | hatter | hatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | nsubj |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 kaze | acl:relcl |
| 23 | fudder | fudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obj |
| 24 | dan | dan | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 fudder | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 dan | iobj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Ef dish | bleedzd property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | bleedzd fer ter | a name | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | den not said here | done property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go | future | you | fudder | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fudder=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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