Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 4
"Well, den, you better, honey," responded the old man, "kaze I 'spizes fer ter have my wahoo trompled on.
Who acts: den, wahoo · What happens: respond, have, trompl on · To what, where: old man, wahoo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (den, wahoo), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 den | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 den | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 responded | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 better | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 better | nsubj |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 den | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 honey | punct |
| 9 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 den | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 den | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 den | punct |
| 12 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 responded | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kaze | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 kaze | punct |
| 18 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 responded | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 21 | spizes | spiz | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 have | nsubj |
| 22 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 ter | amod |
| 23 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 spizes | conj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 kaze | acl:relcl |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wahoo | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wahoo | wahoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obj |
| 27 | trompled | trompl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 have | xcomp |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 trompled | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respond speech: other | past | den and honey | the old man | kaze obl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | den and honey = den | my wahoo | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | trompl on in a quote | participle | my wahoo not said here | 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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