Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 22
"Nex' time Brer Possum met Brer Coon, Brer Coon 'fuse ter 'spon' ter his howdy, en dis make Brer Possum feel mighty bad, seein' ez how dey useter make so many 'scurshuns tergedder.
Who acts: Brer, fuse ter, ez · What happens: meet, spon, make, feel · To what, where: Brer, seein · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, fuse ter, ez), 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 Nex | punct |
| 2 | Nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nex | punct |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 met | nsubj |
| 6 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 make | nsubj |
| 9 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Brer | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spon | punct |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | flat |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 Brer | case |
| 14 | fuse | fuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ter | compound |
| 15 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spon | nsubj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 spon | punct |
| 17 | spon | spon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Brer | appos |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 spon | punct |
| 19 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 21 howdy | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 howdy | nmod:poss |
| 21 | howdy | howdy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spon | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dis | punct |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dis | compound |
| 24 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 howdy | appos |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 met | ccomp |
| 26 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obj |
| 27 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Brer | flat |
| 28 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 make | xcomp |
| 29 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bad | amod |
| 30 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 feel | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 seein | punct |
| 32 | seein | seein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 make | obl |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 ez | punct |
| 34 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 make | nsubj |
| 35 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 useter | advmod |
| 36 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 useter | compound |
| 37 | useter | useter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ez | obl |
| 38 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 met | parataxis |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 many | advmod |
| 40 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 make | obj |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 tergedder | punct |
| 42 | scurshuns | scurshun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 tergedder | compound |
| 43 | tergedder | tergedder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 many | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet in a quote | past | Brer Nex time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | spon in a quote | Brer's fuse ter | ter Brer's howdy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | Brer | Brer | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel in a quote | infinitive | Brer not said here | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | present | ez | seein | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset many=Product |
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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