Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 33
W'at wuz dey fer ter be skeered un?' sezee. '
What happens: skeer · To what, where: W'at fer ter
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 | W'at | W'at | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ter | compound |
| 2 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dey | compound |
| 3 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fer | compound |
| 4 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ter | compound |
| 5 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 skeered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 skeered | aux:pass |
| 7 | skeered | skeer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sezee | compound |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 un | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 un | punct |
| 11 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 skeered | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 skeered | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 skeered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skeer | infinitive · passive | W'at fer ter | 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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