Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 1
"I LAY yo' ma got comp'ny," said Uncle Remus, as the little boy entered the old man's door with a huge piece of mince-pie in his hand, 'en ef she ain't got comp'ny, den she done gone en drap de cubberd key som'ers whar you done run up wid it."
Who acts: Uncle Remus, yo, little boy, Remus, den, cubberd key som'ers · What happens: lay, get, say, enter, not get, do · To what, where: comp'ny, door, hand, gone en, en ef, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus, yo, little boy, Remus), 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 | _ | 3 LAY | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 LAY | nsubj |
| 3 | LAY | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | yo | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 6 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 LAY | ccomp |
| 8 | comp'ny | comp'ny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 LAY | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 LAY | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Remus | compound |
| 13 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 entered | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 entered | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boy | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boy | amod |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 entered | nsubj |
| 19 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 drap | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 door | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 man | case |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 entered | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 piece | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 piece | det |
| 27 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 piece | amod |
| 28 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 entered | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 pie | case |
| 30 | mince | mince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pie | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 mince | punct |
| 32 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 piece | nmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 hand | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hand | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 entered | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 ef | punct |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 ef | punct |
| 38 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ef | compound |
| 39 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 drap | obl |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 got | nsubj |
| 41 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 got | aux |
| 42 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 got | advmod |
| 43 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 ef | acl:relcl |
| 44 | comp'ny | comp'ny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 got | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 den | punct |
| 46 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 drap | nsubj |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 done | nsubj |
| 48 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 den | acl:relcl |
| 49 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 en | amod |
| 50 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 done | obj |
| 51 | drap | drap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 52 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 53 cubberd | compound |
| 53 | cubberd | cubberd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 som'ers | compound |
| 54 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 som'ers | amod |
| 55 | som'ers | som'er | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 whar | nsubj |
| 56 | whar | whar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 drap | conj |
| 57 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 56 whar | obj |
| 58 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 56 whar | xcomp |
| 59 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 drap | conj |
| 60 | up | up | ADP | _ | 59 run | compound:prt |
| 61 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 59 run | ccomp |
| 62 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 wid | obj |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 64 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay in a quote | present | Uncle Remus = remus | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | yo | comp'ny | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comp'ny=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Uncle Remus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | enter | past | the little boy | the old man's door | boy's hand | with a huge piece of mince pie | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Destination | ||
| 5 | not get | present · passive | Remus | comp'ny | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comp'ny=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | do | past | den | gone en | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | drap | present | den | en ef | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | whar | present | cubberd key som'ers | you | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | do | participle | cubberd key som'ers not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | run up | present | den not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 11 | wi | past | den not said here | en | 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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