Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 27
"Nex' day, Brer Fox sont word by Mr. Mink, en skuze hisse'f kaze he wuz too sick fer ter come, en he ax Brer Rabbit fer ter come en take dinner wid him, en Brer Rabbit say he wuz 'gree'ble.
Who acts: ha'r, sick fer ter, fer ter, dinner, Brer, Mink · What happens: wuz, come, ax, take, wi, say · To what, where: kaze wuz, en, ha'r · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ha'r, sick fer ter, fer ter, dinner), 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 | _ | 2 Nex | punct |
| 2 | Nex | Nex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 day | compound |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nex | punct |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 word | punct |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 word | compound |
| 7 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sont | compound |
| 8 | sont | sont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | compound |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | appos |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Mink | case |
| 11 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mink | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Mink | Mink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 word | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 en | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hisse'f | compound |
| 15 | skuze | skuze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hisse'f | compound |
| 16 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kaze | compound |
| 17 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wuz | compound |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wuz | nsubj |
| 19 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | appos |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 sick | advmod |
| 21 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ter | amod |
| 22 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ter | compound |
| 23 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 come | nsubj |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 wuz | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ax | punct |
| 26 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ax | compound |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 ax | nsubj |
| 28 | ax | ax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wuz | conj |
| 29 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 ax | appos |
| 30 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Brer | flat |
| 31 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 ter | amod |
| 32 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 come | nsubj |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 ax | parataxis |
| 34 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 come | obj |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 36 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wid | nsubj |
| 37 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 take | ccomp |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 wid | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 en | punct |
| 40 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wid | obl |
| 41 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 say | nsubj |
| 42 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Brer | flat |
| 43 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 en | acl:relcl |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 gree'ble | nsubj |
| 45 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 gree'ble | nmod:poss |
| 46 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 45 wuz | case |
| 47 | gree'ble | gree'ble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 say | ccomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz in a quote | ha'r | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | sick fer ter | kaze wuz and en ax not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wuz=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ax in a quote | ha'r | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present | fer ter | en | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take in a quote | present | day | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 6 | wi in a quote | past | dinner | ha'r | en obl | tree rules | |||
| 7 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Brer | en not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent en=Topic | ||||
| 8 | gree'ble in a quote | ha'r | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | word in a quote | Mink Mr. | nom word «communication transitive»: by=agent |
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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