Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 32
En dey all s'roundid ole Miss Cow, dey did, en you hear me, honey, dey milk't 'er dry.
Who acts: all, dey, you · What happens: cow, do, hear · To what, where: En dey, s'roundid ole Miss Cow, me
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, dey, you), 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 | En | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dey | compound |
| 2 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 Cow | nsubj |
| 4 | s'roundid | s'roundid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Cow | amod |
| 5 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Cow | amod |
| 6 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Cow | compound |
| 7 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dey | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dey | punct |
| 9 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Cow | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Cow | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 hear | nsubj |
| 14 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 en | acl:relcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 hear | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 honey | punct |
| 17 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Cow | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 milk't | punct |
| 19 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 milk't | compound |
| 20 | milk't | milk't | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Cow | conj |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 milk't | punct |
| 22 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 milk't | conj |
| 23 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 er | amod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cow | all | En dey not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | past | dey | s'roundid ole Miss Cow and en and honey and dey milk't not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | hear | present | you | me | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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