Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 5
Chris'mus doin's is outer date, en dey ain't got no bizness layin' roun' loose.
Who acts: Chris'mus doin, dey ai · What happens: be, not get · To what, where: outer date, bizness layin
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 (Chris'mus doin, dey ai), 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 | Chris'mus | Chris'mus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 doin | compound |
| 2 | doin | doin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 date | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 doin | case |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 date | cop |
| 5 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 date | amod |
| 6 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ai | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dey | compound |
| 9 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ai | compound |
| 10 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | nsubj |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 got | advmod |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 date | acl:relcl |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 layin | det |
| 14 | bizness | bizness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 layin | compound |
| 15 | layin | layin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | obj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 roun | punct |
| 17 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 layin | appos |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 roun | punct |
| 19 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 12 got | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 date | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Chris'mus doin | outer date | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not get | past | dey ai | no bizness layin | loose property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer layin=Stimulus |
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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