Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 61
Some say dat Brer Rabbit's ole 'oman died fum eatin' some pizen- weed, en dat Brer Rabbit married ole Miss Fox, en some say not.
Who acts: Some, ole oman, Brer Rabbit · What happens: say, die, fum, marry, not say · To what, where: dat, eatin, ole Miss Fox, en · 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 (Some, ole oman, Brer Rabbit), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | obj |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Rabbit | compound |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 oman | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Rabbit | case |
| 7 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 oman | amod |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 ole | punct |
| 9 | oman | oman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 died | nsubj |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | parataxis |
| 11 | fum | fum | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 died | xcomp |
| 12 | eatin | eatin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fum | obj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 eatin | punct |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 weed | det |
| 15 | pizen | pizen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 weed | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 pizen | punct |
| 17 | weed | weed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fum | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 en | punct |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 weed | conj |
| 20 | dat | dat | SCONJ | _ | 23 married | mark |
| 21 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Rabbit | compound |
| 22 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 married | nsubj |
| 23 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 en | acl |
| 24 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Fox | amod |
| 25 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Fox | compound |
| 26 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 married | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 en | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 weed | conj |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 say | nsubj |
| 30 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 en | acl:relcl |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 say | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Some | dat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dat=Topic | ||||
| 2 | die | past | Brer Rabbit's ole oman | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fum | infinitive | Brer Rabbit's ole oman not said here | eatin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | marry | past | Brer Rabbit | ole Miss Fox | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not say speech: assert | present | some | en not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent en=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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