Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 2
"One day, atter Sis Cow done run pas' 'er own shadder tryin' fer ter ketch 'im.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, run · To what, where: One day, pas
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 run | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 run | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 atter | punct |
| 5 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 6 | Sis | Sis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Cow | compound |
| 7 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 day | acl |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | pas | pa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 run | obj |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 pas | case |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 run | punct |
| 13 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 run | advmod |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tryin | amod |
| 15 | shadder | shadder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tryin | compound |
| 16 | tryin | tryin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 er | nsubj |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 tryin | punct |
| 18 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 tryin | conj |
| 19 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ketch | compound |
| 20 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 im | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 20 ketch | case |
| 22 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fer | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | participle | One day and atter and Sis Cow not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run in a quote | imperative | you not said here | pas | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pa=Trajectory |
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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