Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 28
"'Tu'n me loose, fo' I kick de natchul stuffin' outen you,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, but de Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nuthin'.
Who acts: Tu'n, you · What happens: kick, outen, say · To what, where: de natchul stuffin, Brer · 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 (Tu'n, you), 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 Tu'n | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tu'n | punct |
| 3 | Tu'n | Tu'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 kick | nsubj |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 Tu'n | iobj |
| 5 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 10 kick | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 loose | punct |
| 7 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 10 kick | mark |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 kick | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 kick | nsubj |
| 10 | kick | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 stuffin | compound |
| 12 | natchul | natchul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stuffin | amod |
| 13 | stuffin | stuffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kick | obj |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 outen | punct |
| 15 | outen | outen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stuffin | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 outen | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sez | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 sez | punct |
| 19 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 kick | parataxis |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sez | obj |
| 21 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Brer | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sezee | punct |
| 23 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Brer | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ai | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 ai | cc |
| 26 | de | de | ADP | _ | 27 Tar | case |
| 27 | Tar | Tar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 ai | obl |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Baby | punct |
| 29 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Tar | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Tar | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 ai | nsubj |
| 32 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sez | conj |
| 33 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 sayin | advmod |
| 34 | sayin | sayin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ai | obj |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 nuthin | punct |
| 36 | nuthin | nuthin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sayin | appos |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 nuthin | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 kick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick in a quote | present | Tu'n | de natchul stuffin and outen | loose property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent stuffin=Patient | |||
| 2 | outen in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |
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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