Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 25
But Tar-Baby, she stay still, en Brer Fox, he lay low.
Who acts: Tar, im · What happens: stay, lie · To what, where: en Brer Fox
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 (Tar, im), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 stay | cc |
| 2 | Tar | Tar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Baby | punct |
| 4 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tar | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stay | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stay | nsubj |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 stay | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Fox | punct |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Fox | compound |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Fox | compound |
| 12 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lay | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | advcl |
| 16 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lay | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | infinitive | Tar and Baby | en Brer Fox | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | lie | past | im | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «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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