Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 36
"'Dat's a mighty likely tale,' sezee, 'w'en Mr. Dog ain't mo'n tech you 'fo' you keel over, en lay dar stiff,' sezee.
Who acts: Dat, you, en · What happens: be, tech, keel over, lie · To what, where: mighty likely tale, you, sezee
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 (Dat, you, en), 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 | _ | 17 ai | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 tale | punct |
| 3 | Dat | Dat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tale | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tale | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tale | det |
| 6 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tale | amod |
| 7 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tale | amod |
| 8 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ai | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sezee | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 sezee | punct |
| 11 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tale | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 w'en | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 w'en | punct |
| 14 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tale | conj |
| 15 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Dog | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 w'en | appos |
| 17 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Vrnc Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 ai | advmod |
| 19 | mo'n | mo'n | CCONJ | _ | 20 tech | cc |
| 20 | tech | tech | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ai | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 tech | obj |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 tech | punct |
| 23 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 26 keel | mark |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 keel | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 keel | nsubj |
| 26 | keel | keel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 tech | advcl |
| 27 | over | over | ADV | _ | 26 keel | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lay | punct |
| 29 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lay | nsubj |
| 30 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ai | parataxis |
| 31 | dar | dar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 stiff | amod |
| 32 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lay | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sezee | punct |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 sezee | punct |
| 35 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lay | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Dat | a mighty likely tale and sezee and w'en | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tech in a quote | infinitive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | keel over in a quote | present | you | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lie in a quote | past | en | sezee | stiff property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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