Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 24
"'I ain't runnin' wid cowerds deze days,' sez Brer Coon. '
Who acts: runnin · What happens: not runnin, say · To what, where: wid cowerds, Brer · 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 (runnin), 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 | _ | 6 runnin | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 runnin | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 runnin | nsubj |
| 4 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 runnin | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 runnin | advmod |
| 6 | runnin | runnin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 sez | csubj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 cowerds | punct |
| 8 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cowerds | amod |
| 9 | cowerds | cowerd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 runnin | obj |
| 10 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 days | compound |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cowerds | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 runnin | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 runnin | punct |
| 14 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sez | obj |
| 16 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Brer | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sez | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not runnin in a quote | present · progressive | runnin | wid cowerds | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | runnin | 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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