Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 10
Dey keep on talkin', dey did, twel bimeby dey gotter 'sputin' 'bout w'ich wuz de swif'es'.
Who acts: Dey, dey gotter · What happens: keep, do, swif'e · To what, where: talkin dey
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey, dey gotter), 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 | Dey | Dey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 dey | case |
| 4 | talkin | talkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dey | compound |
| 5 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 4 talkin | dep |
| 6 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obl |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 keep | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gotter | punct |
| 9 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bimeby | compound |
| 10 | bimeby | bimeby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dey | compound |
| 11 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gotter | compound |
| 12 | gotter | gotter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swif'es | nsubj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 sputin | punct |
| 14 | sputin | sputin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wuz | compound |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 sputin | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 sputin | punct |
| 17 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 w'ich | compound |
| 18 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wuz | compound |
| 19 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swif'es | compound |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 wuz | flat:foreign |
| 21 | swif'es | swif'e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 keep | parataxis |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 swif'es | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Dey | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | past | Dey not said here | talkin dey | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | swif'e | dey gotter | 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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