Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 11
"Brer Fox, he wink his eye slow, en lay low, en de Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nuthin'.
Who acts: Brer · What happens: wink, lay · To what, where: eye, en
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer), 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 Brer | punct |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Brer | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wink | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wink | nsubj |
| 6 | wink | wink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Brer | acl:relcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eye | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wink | obj |
| 9 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wink | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Brer | conj |
| 12 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lay | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 en | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 16 | de | de | ADP | _ | 17 Tar | case |
| 17 | Tar | Tar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 en | nmod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Baby | punct |
| 19 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tar | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ai | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ai | nsubj |
| 22 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lay | parataxis |
| 23 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 sayin | advmod |
| 24 | sayin | sayin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ai | obj |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 nuthin | punct |
| 26 | nuthin | nuthin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sayin | appos |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 nuthin | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wink in a quote | infinitive | Brer | Brer's eye | slow property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | lay in a quote | present | Brer and en | en de Tar and Baby | low property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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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