Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 17
"Well, sho nuff, de nex' day fotch Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox say, sezee:
Who acts: sho nuff · What happens: say · To what, where: sezee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sho nuff), 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 | _ | 5 nuff | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 nuff | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | sho | sho | NOUN | _ | 5 nuff | compound |
| 5 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 say | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nex | punct |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 nex | compound |
| 8 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fotch | compound |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 nex | punct |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fotch | compound |
| 11 | fotch | fotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nuff | conj |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fotch | appos |
| 13 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Brer | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 en | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nuff | conj |
| 16 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 en | appos |
| 17 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Brer | flat |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sezee | punct |
| 20 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 say | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | sho nuff and nex day fotch and en | sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=Topic |
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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