Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 41
Dar he see ole Miss Fox, en he tell 'er dat he done fotch her some nice beef w'at 'er ole man sont 'er, but she ain't gotter look at it twel she go ter eat it.
Who acts: Dar, gotter, dat · What happens: see, tell, do, fotch, not look, go · To what, where: ole Miss Fox, er dat, dat, twel, gotter · 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 (Dar, gotter, dat), 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 | Dar | Dar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Fox | amod |
| 5 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fox | compound |
| 6 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 en | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | parataxis |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 en | parataxis |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 dat | punct |
| 12 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dat | compound |
| 13 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tell | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 done | nsubj |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dat | acl:relcl |
| 16 | fotch | fotch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 done | xcomp |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fotch | obj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 w'at | det |
| 19 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 w'at | amod |
| 20 | beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 w'at | compound |
| 21 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fotch | obj |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 w'at | punct |
| 23 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 sont | advmod |
| 24 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sont | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sont | compound |
| 26 | sont | sont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fotch | obl |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 sont | punct |
| 28 | er | er | INTJ | _ | 26 sont | discourse |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ai | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 ai | cc |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 ai | nsubj |
| 32 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | parataxis |
| 33 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 look | advmod |
| 34 | gotter | gotter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 look | nsubj |
| 35 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 ai | xcomp |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 twel | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 twel | nsubj |
| 38 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 look | obl |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 go | nsubj |
| 40 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 twel | acl |
| 41 | ter | ter | ADV | _ | 42 eat | advmod |
| 42 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 go | xcomp |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 eat | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | Dar | ole Miss Fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | dar | er dat | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dat=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | past | dar | er dat not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fotch | infinitive | dar not said here | dat | ole man sont obl | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not look | infinitive | gotter | at twel | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at twel=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | dat | twel not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | eat | infinitive | dat not said here | gotter | ter property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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