Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 68
"'Ladies, ain't I done tell you Brer Fox wuz de ridin'-hoss fer our fambly?
Who acts: Den, Ladies · What happens: not do, tell · To what, where: Ladies, Fox wuz, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, Ladies), 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 | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ladies | punct |
| 3 | Ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ai | punct |
| 5 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Ladies | conj |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 done | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 done | nsubj |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Ladies | acl |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Fox | compound |
| 12 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wuz | compound |
| 13 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obj |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 wuz | flat:foreign |
| 15 | ridin | ridin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fer | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 ridin | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 hoss | punct |
| 18 | hoss | hoss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fer | compound |
| 19 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wuz | conj |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fambly | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fambly | fambly | ADV | _ | 19 fer | advmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | participle | Den | Ladies and ai not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | Ladies and ai | Fox wuz and ridin's hoss fer | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wuz=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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