Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 5
En dey kep der cloze clean, en dey ain't had no smut on der nose nudder."
Who acts: En dey, der cloze · What happens: kep, not have · To what, where: smut, der nose nudder
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 (En dey, der cloze), 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 | En | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dey | compound |
| 2 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kep | nsubj |
| 3 | kep | kep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 cloze | amod |
| 5 | cloze | cloze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 6 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cloze | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ai | punct |
| 8 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ai | amod |
| 9 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ai | compound |
| 10 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 had | advmod |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kep | ccomp |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 smut | det |
| 14 | smut | smut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 nudder | case |
| 16 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 nudder | amod |
| 17 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nudder | compound |
| 18 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 smut | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kep | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 kep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kep | infinitive | En dey | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not have | past | der cloze | no smut | der nose nudder | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smut=Patient |
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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