Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 25
"He didn't 'res' you, did he, Brer Remus?"
Who acts: myse'f · What happens: do · To what, where: res
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (myse'f), 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 | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 res | advmod |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 res | punct |
| 6 | res | re | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 res | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 res | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Remus | punct |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Remus | compound |
| 14 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | myse'f | res | Brer Remus obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent re=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | myse'f | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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