Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 28
"'You is,' sez Brer Coon, 'dat's who.
What happens: be
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: 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 | _ | 7 sez | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 3 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sez | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 7 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sez | obj |
| 9 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Brer | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dat | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 dat | punct |
| 12 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sez | obl |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 dat | case |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 dat | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | 's dat; say property | tree rules |
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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