Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 18
Miss Meadows en de gals en mos' all de nabers got win' er de fun, en wen de day wuz sot dey 'termin' fer ter be on han'.
Who acts: en mos, sot dey · What happens: get, be · To what, where: win er fun, en wen, han
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 (en mos, sot dey), 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 | Miss | miss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Meadows | compound |
| 2 | Meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 en | compound |
| 3 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gals | compound |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 en | flat:foreign |
| 5 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 en | compound |
| 6 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mos | compound |
| 7 | mos | mo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 got | nsubj |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 mos | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 nabers | det |
| 10 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 nabers | compound |
| 11 | nabers | naber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fun | compound |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 win | punct |
| 15 | er | er | X | _ | 17 fun | compound |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 er | flat:foreign |
| 17 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wen | punct |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wen | compound |
| 20 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fun | appos |
| 21 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 day | amod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sot | compound |
| 23 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sot | compound |
| 24 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dey | compound |
| 25 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 han | nsubj |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 termin | punct |
| 27 | termin | termin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 han | nsubj |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 termin | punct |
| 29 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 ter | amod |
| 30 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 han | nsubj |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 han | cop |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 han | case |
| 33 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wen | acl:relcl |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 han | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | en mos | win er fun | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fun=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | sot dey | en wen not said here | han | 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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