Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 17
"Brer Fox, he sorter chuckle in his stummick, he did, but Tar- Baby ain't sayin' nothin'.
Who acts: Brer · What happens: chuckle, do · To what, where: stummick
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 | 13 did | nsubj |
| 3 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Brer | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chuckle | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 chuckle | nsubj |
| 6 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chuckle | compound |
| 7 | chuckle | chuckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Brer | appos |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 stummick | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 stummick | nmod:poss |
| 10 | stummick | stummick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chuckle | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brer | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ai | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 ai | cc |
| 16 | Tar | Tar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Baby | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tar | punct |
| 18 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ai | nsubj |
| 19 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Vrnc Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 did | parataxis |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 sayin | advmod |
| 21 | sayin | sayin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ai | obj |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 nothin | punct |
| 23 | nothin | nothin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sayin | appos |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 nothin | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuckle in a quote | Brer | Brer's stummick | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | Brer | 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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