Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 4
"'Spozen he runs up on us, Brer Possum, w'at you gwineter do?' sez Brer Coon, sezee.
Who acts: Spozen, you, Brer Possum · What happens: run up, gwineter, do, say · To what, where: 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 (Spozen, you, Brer Possum), 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 | _ | 5 runs | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Spozen | punct |
| 3 | Spozen | Spozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 runs | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 runs | nsubj |
| 5 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sez | csubj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 runs | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 runs | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Possum | punct |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Possum | compound |
| 11 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 do | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 w'at | punct |
| 13 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gwineter | compound |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 gwineter | nsubj |
| 15 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Possum | appos |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 runs | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 runs | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 runs | punct |
| 19 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sez | obj |
| 21 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Brer | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sezee | punct |
| 23 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Brer | appos |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up in a quote | present | Spozen | on us | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on we=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | gwineter in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | Brer Possum | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: ask in a quote | present | 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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