Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 11
W'en ole Miss wuz livin'," continued the old man, still addressing some imaginary person, 'hit 'uz mo'n enny her chilluns 'ud dast ter do ter come 'sputin' longer me, en Mars John'll tell you de same enny day you ax 'im."
Who acts: Miss wuz livin, ud dast ter, en Mars, you · What happens: continue, address, come, tell, ax · To what, where: W'en, imaginary person, sputin, de, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss wuz livin, ud dast ter, en Mars, you), 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 | W'en | w'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 continued | obl |
| 2 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Miss | amod |
| 3 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 livin | compound |
| 4 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 livin | compound |
| 5 | livin | livin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | nsubj |
| 6 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 5 livin | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 livin | punct |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 addressing | punct |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 addressing | advmod |
| 14 | addressing | address | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 continued | advcl |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 person | det |
| 16 | imaginary | imaginary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 person | amod |
| 17 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 addressing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hit | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 hit | punct |
| 20 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mo'n | compound |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 hit | punct |
| 22 | uz | uz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mo'n | compound |
| 23 | mo'n | mo'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 addressing | obj |
| 24 | enny | enny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 mo'n | appos |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 chilluns | nmod:poss |
| 26 | chilluns | chillun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 addressing | obj |
| 27 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 26 chilluns | case |
| 28 | ud | ud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 ter | amod |
| 29 | dast | dast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ter | compound |
| 30 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 come | nsubj |
| 31 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 come | aux |
| 32 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 come | nsubj |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 addressing | ccomp |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 sputin | punct |
| 35 | sputin | sputin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 come | obj |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 sputin | punct |
| 37 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 come | advmod |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 longer | iobj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Mars | punct |
| 40 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Mars | compound |
| 41 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 tell | nsubj |
| 42 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Mars | flat |
| 43 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 tell | aux |
| 44 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 continued | conj |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 tell | iobj |
| 46 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 44 tell | obj |
| 47 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 day | amod |
| 48 | enny | enny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 day | compound |
| 49 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 ax | compound |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 51 ax | nsubj |
| 51 | ax | ax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 de | appos |
| 52 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 51 ax | punct |
| 53 | im | im | X | Foreign=Yes | 46 de | flat:foreign |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 tell | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue in a quote | past | Miss wuz livin | W'en | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | address in a quote | gerund | Miss wuz livin not said here | some imaginary person | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · do-support | ud dast ter | sputin | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sputin=Theme | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | en Mars | de | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient de=Topic | |||
| 5 | ax in a quote | you | 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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