Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 39
Sence Brer Wolf done quite comin' en settin' up wid me, I gittin' so I feels right lonesome dese long nights,' sezee.
Who acts: Sence, I · What happens: do up, wi, gittin, feel · To what, where: comin, me, sezee
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sence, I), 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 | Sence | Sence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 done | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sence | flat |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sence | flat |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wid | advcl |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 comin | advmod |
| 6 | comin | comin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | obj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 8 | en | en | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 settin | compound |
| 9 | settin | settin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | obj |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 done | compound:prt |
| 12 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wid | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gittin | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 gittin | nsubj |
| 16 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wid | obj |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 gittin | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 feels | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 feels | nsubj |
| 20 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wid | advcl |
| 21 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 nights | amod |
| 22 | lonesome | lonesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 nights | amod |
| 23 | dese | dese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 nights | amod |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 nights | amod |
| 25 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sezee | nmod:poss |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ' | punct |
| 27 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 25 nights | case |
| 28 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feels | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 wid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do up | participle | Sence | comin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wi | past | me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | gittin | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | feel | present | I | right lonesome dese long nights's sezee | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sezee=Theme |
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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