Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 9
"'All right, Brer Fox, but you better holler fum whar you stan'.
Who acts: you · What happens: fum · To what, where: whar
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 (you), 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 | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 3 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 right | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fox | punct |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fox | compound |
| 7 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 right | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fum | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 fum | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 fum | nsubj |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 holler | amod |
| 12 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fum | nsubj |
| 13 | fum | fum | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 right | conj |
| 14 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fum | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 stan | nsubj |
| 16 | stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 whar | nmod |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 stan | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fum in a quote | infinitive | you | whar stan | 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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