Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 2
"He come mighty nigh it, honey, sho's you born--Brer Fox did.
Who acts: boy, Brer · What happens: come, bear, do · To what, where: honey, sho
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 (boy, 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 | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 come | xcomp |
| 5 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 6 it | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mighty | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 honey | punct |
| 8 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 born | punct |
| 10 | sho | sho | NOUN | _ | 13 born | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 sho | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 born | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 come | parataxis |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 15 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 did | nsubj |
| 16 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Brer | flat |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 born | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | boy | honey | mighty property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | bear in a quote | participle · passive | sho | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | 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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