Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 31
Lor', Brer Coon, you don't speck I done dat kaze I wuz 'feared, duz you?' sezee. '
Who acts: Brer Coon, I · What happens: not speck, do, wuz, fear · To what, where: dat kaze, you · 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 Coon, I), 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 | Lor | Lor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Coon | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 1 Lor | case |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Coon | compound |
| 4 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 speck | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Coon | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 speck | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 speck | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 speck | advmod |
| 9 | speck | speck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 feared | ccomp |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 done | nsubj |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 speck | ccomp |
| 12 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kaze | compound |
| 13 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 done | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 wuz | nsubj |
| 15 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 speck | parataxis |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 wuz | punct |
| 17 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 duz | punct |
| 19 | duz | duz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 you | appos |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 feared | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 feared | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 feared | punct |
| 23 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feared | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 feared | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speck | present · do-support | Lor's Brer Coon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | participle | I | dat kaze | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kaze=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | wuz | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fear | past | you | sezee obl:unmarked | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
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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