Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 75
"Jedge B'ar come long nex' day," replied Uncle Remus, "en he fine some fedders, en fum dat word went roun' dat ole man Squinch Owl done kotch nudder watzizname."
Who acts: Jedge, Uncle, dat word, ole man · What happens: come, reply, fine, fum, go, do · To what, where: fedders, roun, kotch nudder watzizname · 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 (Jedge, Uncle, dat word, ole man), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | Jedge | Jedge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | B'ar | B'ar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jedge | flat |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 nex | amod |
| 6 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | compound |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 nex | punct |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 fum | nsubj |
| 13 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Uncle | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 en | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 en | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Uncle | appos |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fine | nsubj |
| 18 | fine | fine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 en | acl:relcl |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 fedders | det |
| 20 | fedders | fedder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fine | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 en | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fum | nsubj |
| 23 | fum | fum | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 24 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 word | compound |
| 25 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fum | ccomp |
| 27 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obj |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 roun | punct |
| 29 | dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 30 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 man | amod |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 32 | Squinch | Squinch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 man | appos |
| 33 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Squinch | flat |
| 34 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 man | acl |
| 35 | kotch | kotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 watzizname | compound |
| 36 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 watzizname | compound |
| 37 | watzizname | watzizname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 done | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 fum | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 fum | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | Jedge | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | fine in a quote | past | Uncle | some fedders | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fedder=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | fum in a quote | infinitive | Uncle | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | past | dat word | roun | that ole man obl | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roun=Theme | |||
| 6 | do in a quote | participle | that ole man not said here | kotch nudder watzizname | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watzizname=Eventuality |
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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