Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 53
"Oh, well den!" exclaimed the old man, "chilluns can't speck ter know all 'bout eve'ything 'fo' dey git some res'.
Who acts: den, chilluns, ter · What happens: exclaim, not speck, know, eve'yth · To what, where: old man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (den, chilluns, ter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 den | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 den | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 den | discourse |
| 5 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 den | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 den | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 speck | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 speck | punct |
| 14 | chilluns | chillun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 speck | nsubj |
| 15 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 speck | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 speck | advmod |
| 17 | speck | speck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 exclaimed | conj |
| 18 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | nsubj |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 speck | ccomp |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 ' | advmod |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 22 | bout | bout | SCONJ | _ | 23 eve'ything | mark |
| 23 | eve'ything | eve'yth | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 know | ccomp |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 eve'ything | punct |
| 25 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 28 git | case |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 git | punct |
| 27 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 git | compound |
| 28 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eve'ything | obl |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 res | det |
| 30 | res | re | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 git | appos |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 res | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | den | the old man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not speck in a quote | can | chilluns | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | ter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | eve'yth in a quote | gerund | for dey git | 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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