Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 35
I 'low'd, bein's how dat you'd hatter sorter camp out all night dat I'd better come en swaje yo' bag,' sezee."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: ', camp out, come · To what, where: dat, en swaje yo
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ' | nsubj |
| 2 | ' | ' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ' | xcomp |
| 4 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 3 low | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bein | punct |
| 6 | bein | bein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ' | obl |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 bein | case |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 camp | advmod |
| 9 | dat | dat | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 camp | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 camp | nsubj |
| 11 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 camp | aux |
| 12 | hatter | hatter | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sorter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 camp | nsubj |
| 14 | camp | camp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ' | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 camp | compound:prt |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 dat | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dat | compound |
| 18 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 camp | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 come | nsubj |
| 20 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 21 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 come | advmod |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 dat | acl:relcl |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 yo | compound |
| 24 | swaje | swaje | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 yo | compound |
| 25 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | obj |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 yo | punct |
| 27 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 yo | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sezee | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 sezee | punct |
| 30 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 yo | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ' | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ' | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | present | I | 's bein; low property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | camp out | would | you | dat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | would | I | en swaje yo and bag and sezee | well property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yo=Theme |
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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