Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 23
En dey keep on waitin', but no Brer Fox ain't come.
Who acts: En dey, Brer Fox · What happens: keep, not come · To what, where: waitin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En dey, Brer Fox), 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 | En | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dey | compound |
| 2 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 waitin | case |
| 5 | waitin | waitin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obl |
| 6 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 5 waitin | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 come | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 Fox | det |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fox | compound |
| 10 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | nsubj |
| 11 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 come | advmod |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 keep | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | En dey | waitin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on waitin=Location | ||||
| 2 | not come | present | no Brer Fox | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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