Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 54
Dem eyelids er yone wanter be propped wid straws dis minnit."
Who acts: wid straws · What happens: prop, dis · To what, where: Dem eyelids, minnit
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 (wid straws), 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 | Dem | Dem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 eyelids | compound |
| 2 | eyelids | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 propped | nsubj |
| 3 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 wanter | advmod |
| 4 | yone | yone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanter | compound |
| 5 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eyelids | nmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 propped | aux:pass |
| 7 | propped | prop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 straws | amod |
| 9 | straws | straw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dis | nsubj |
| 10 | dis | dis | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 propped | ccomp |
| 11 | minnit | minnit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dis | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 propped | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 propped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prop | infinitive · passive | Dem eyelids yone wanter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dis | present | wid straws | minnit | 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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