Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 6
"'Oh, ef he come, Brer Coon, I'm gwineter stan' by you,' sez Brer Possum. '
Who acts: ef, Uncle Remus · What happens: come, be, say · To what, where: Brer, Brer Possum · 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 (ef, Uncle Remus), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ef | punct |
| 3 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 ef | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Oh | punct |
| 5 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Brer | punct |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obj |
| 10 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Brer | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gwineter | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 gwineter | nsubj |
| 13 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gwineter | cop |
| 14 | gwineter | gwinet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 come | parataxis |
| 15 | stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 gwineter | obl |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 stan | punct |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 gwineter | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sez | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 sez | punct |
| 21 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gwineter | conj |
| 22 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Possum | compound |
| 23 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sez | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | ef | Brer | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Uncle Remus = remus | by you; stan obl; gwinet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Uncle Remus = remus not said here | Brer Possum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent possum=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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