Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 72

"Well, dat's diffunt," said the old man. "

Who acts: diffunt · What happens: say · To what, where: old man · 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 (diffunt), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 diffunt	punct
4	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 diffunt	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 dat	case
6	diffunt	diffunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 diffunt	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 diffunt	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	dat's diffunt	the old man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=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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