Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 7
"'I ain't got time, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, sorter mendin' his licks.
Who acts: I · What happens: not get, say · To what, where: Brer · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 13 sez | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 4 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 got | advmod |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 sez | ccomp |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fox | punct |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fox | compound |
| 10 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 13 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | obj |
| 15 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sezee | punct |
| 17 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mendin | punct |
| 19 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mendin | compound |
| 20 | mendin | mendin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sezee | appos |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 mendin | punct |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 licks | nmod:poss |
| 23 | licks | lick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 mendin | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | present · passive | I | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Brer | tree rules |
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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