Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 80
"So B'er Cooter went an' git nine er his fam'ly, an' put one at ebery mile-pos', and he hisse'f, what was to run wid B'er Deer, he was right in front of de young lady's do', in de broom-grass.
Who acts: B'er Cooter, Cooter, hisse'f · What happens: go, put, hisse'f, run, be · To what, where: git, de broom grass, one, ebery mile pos, wid, front · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Cooter, hisse'f), 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 went | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 3 | B'er | B'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Cooter | compound |
| 4 | Cooter | cooter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 git | det |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 git | punct |
| 8 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 git | flat |
| 10 | er | er | ADP | _ | 12 fam'ly | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fam'ly | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fam'ly | fam'ly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hisse'f | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hisse'f | det |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 hisse'f | csubj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 pos | case |
| 19 | ebery | ebery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pos | amod |
| 20 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pos | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 mile | punct |
| 22 | pos | pos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 one | nmod |
| 23 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hisse'f | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hisse'f | nsubj |
| 26 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fam'ly | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 run | punct |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 run | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 run | aux |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 run | mark |
| 31 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 hisse'f | conj |
| 32 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 run | obj |
| 33 | B'er | B'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 wid | appos |
| 34 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 B'er | flat |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 right | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 right | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 right | cop |
| 38 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 went | parataxis |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 front | case |
| 40 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 right | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 do | case |
| 42 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 lady | amod |
| 43 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 lady | amod |
| 44 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 do | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 lady | case |
| 46 | do | do | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 front | nmod |
| 47 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 38 right | punct |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 grass | case |
| 49 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 grass | amod |
| 50 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 grass | compound |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 broom | punct |
| 52 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | B'er Cooter | a git | de broom grass | er Cooter's fam'ly | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in grass=Location | ||
| 2 | put in a quote | infinitive | one | ebery mile pos | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme at pos=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hisse'f in a quote | Cooter | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | run in a quote | past | a hisse'f | wid | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wid=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | Cooter | front of de young lady's do | right property | 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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