Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 31
Bout dat time, you wuz at home with yo' fambly, whar you allers is.
Who acts: you · What happens: wuz, be · To what, where: home, whar
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Bout | Bout | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 2 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wuz | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 wuz | nsubj |
| 6 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wuz | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 yo | case |
| 10 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 home | nmod |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 yo | punct |
| 12 | fambly | fambly | ADV | _ | 6 wuz | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 whar | punct |
| 14 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wuz | obl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 whar | conj |
| 16 | allers | aller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 whar | cop |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz | present | you | home with yo | time | fambly property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a | present | whar | 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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