Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 28
"'W'at we gwine do?' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
Who acts: we, W'at gwine · What happens: gwine, do, say · To what, where: Brer · 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 (we, W'at gwine), 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 | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 W'at | punct |
| 3 | W'at | W'at | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gwine | compound |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 gwine | nsubj |
| 5 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sez | csubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 9 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sez | obj |
| 11 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Brer | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sezee | punct |
| 13 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Brer | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gwine in a quote | we | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | W'at gwine | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask in a quote | present | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=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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