Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 75
"One time B'er Deer an' B'er Cooter (Terrapin) was courtin', and de lady did bin lub B'er Deer mo' so dan B'er Cooter.
Who acts: B'er Cooter, courtin · What happens: be, bin · To what, where: courtin, lub
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (B'er Cooter, courtin), 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 | _ | 14 courtin | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 time | nummod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 courtin | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | B'er | B'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 time | appos |
| 5 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 B'er | flat |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Cooter | det |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Cooter | punct |
| 8 | B'er | B'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Cooter | compound |
| 9 | Cooter | cooter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 courtin | nsubj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 Terrapin | punct |
| 11 | Terrapin | terrapin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Cooter | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 Terrapin | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 courtin | cop |
| 14 | courtin | courtin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bin | nsubj |
| 15 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 14 courtin | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lady | cc |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 lady | compound |
| 18 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 courtin | conj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bin | aux |
| 20 | bin | bin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | lub | lub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bin | obj |
| 22 | B'er | B'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 mo | compound |
| 23 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 mo | compound |
| 24 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bin | obj |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 mo | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 Cooter | advmod |
| 27 | dan | Dan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Cooter | compound |
| 28 | B'er | B'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 dan | flat |
| 29 | Cooter | cooter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bin | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | a B'er Cooter | courtin and de lady | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bin in a quote | past · do-support | courtin and de lady | lub | dan Cooter obl | 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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