Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 32
"'Yes, Brer Rabbit, dey er nice, en fresh, en tender, 'sez Brer Fox, sezee.
Who acts: Brer Rabbit · What happens: say · To what, where: Brer Fox · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sez | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Rabbit | punct |
| 3 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 Rabbit | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yes | punct |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | compound |
| 6 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sez | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dey | punct |
| 8 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | conj |
| 9 | er | er | ADV | _ | 10 nice | advmod |
| 10 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dey | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | conj |
| 13 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 en | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tender | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tender | compound |
| 16 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sez | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tender | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 tender | punct |
| 19 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Fox | compound |
| 21 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sez | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sezee | punct |
| 23 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Fox | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Brer Rabbit and dey and en | Brer Fox and sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=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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