Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 27
Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nuthin', en Brer Fox, he lay low.
Who acts: Baby, en · What happens: not say, lie · To what, where: nuthin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Baby, en), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:269): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tar | Tar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Baby | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Baby | punct |
| 3 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sayin | dislocated |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Baby | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sayin | nsubj |
| 6 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sayin | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 sayin | advmod |
| 8 | sayin | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sayin | punct |
| 10 | nuthin | nothing | PRON | PronType=Neg | 8 sayin | obj |
| 11 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 10 nuthin | punct |
| 12 | en | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lay | cc |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Fox | compound |
| 14 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | dislocated |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Fox | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sayin | conj |
| 18 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lay | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sayin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | present · progressive | Baby | nuthin | Tar Baby dislocated | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 2 | lie | past | en | Brer Fox dislocated; 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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