Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 39
W'en cows don't git milk't, der bag swells, en you k'n hear um a moanin' en a beller'n des like dey wuz gittin' hurtid.
Who acts: der bag, en · What happens: swell, hear · To what, where: git milk't, um
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 (der bag, en), 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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cows | compound |
| 2 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 milk't | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 milk't | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 milk't | advmod |
| 5 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 milk't | compound |
| 6 | milk't | milk't | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 milk't | punct |
| 8 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 bag | amod |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swells | nsubj |
| 10 | swells | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 milk't | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hear | nsubj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 hear | nsubj |
| 14 | k'n | k'n | CCONJ | _ | 15 hear | cc |
| 15 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 milk't | parataxis |
| 16 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hear | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 en | det |
| 18 | moanin | moanin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 18 moanin | case |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hear | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 des | det |
| 22 | beller'n | beller'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 des | compound |
| 23 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | appos |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 hurtid | case |
| 25 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wuz | compound |
| 26 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gittin | compound |
| 27 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hurtid | compound |
| 28 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 27 gittin | case |
| 29 | hurtid | hurtid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 des | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 milk't | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swell | present | der bag | git milk't not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient milk't=Extent | ||||
| 2 | hear | infinitive | en | um | 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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