Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 27
"'Now, den,' sez Brer Fox, 'we er gone, sho,' sezee.
Who acts: den · What happens: say · To what, where: Brer Fox · 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 (den), 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 sez | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Now | punct |
| 3 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 sez | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 den | punct |
| 5 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sez | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 den | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 den | punct |
| 8 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fox | compound |
| 10 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sez | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gone | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 gone | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | er | er | ADV | _ | 15 gone | advmod |
| 15 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sez | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sho | punct |
| 17 | sho | sho | NOUN | _ | 15 gone | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sezee | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 sezee | punct |
| 20 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sho | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | den | Brer Fox | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=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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