Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 20
"Atter w'ile Miss Meadows, she up en say, she did, dat she'd take'n loan de young men her bed-cord, en w'iles de candy wuz a coolin' in de plates, dey could all go ter de branch en see Brer Tarrypin kyar out his projick.
Who acts: w'ile Miss Meadows, en, coolin, ter · What happens: say, do, dat, take'n, go, see out · To what, where: loan, de candy wuz, Brer kyar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (w'ile Miss Meadows, en, coolin, ter), 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 | _ | 5 Meadows | punct |
| 2 | Atter | Atter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 w'ile | compound |
| 3 | w'ile | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Meadows | compound |
| 4 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Meadows | compound |
| 5 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 say | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 en | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 en | compound |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 she | compound:prt |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Meadows | conj |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dat | punct |
| 15 | dat | dat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | parataxis |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take'n | nsubj |
| 17 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take'n | aux |
| 18 | take'n | take'n | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 dat | ccomp |
| 19 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take'n | obj |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 loan | flat:foreign |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 men | amod |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 loan | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 cord | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cord | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 bed | punct |
| 26 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 men | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 w'iles | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 w'iles | compound |
| 29 | w'iles | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 men | conj |
| 30 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 wuz | amod |
| 31 | candy | candy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wuz | compound |
| 32 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 w'iles | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 coolin | det |
| 34 | coolin | coolin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 go | nsubj |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 coolin | punct |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 plates | case |
| 37 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 plates | compound |
| 38 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 coolin | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 dey | punct |
| 40 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 plates | conj |
| 41 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 go | aux |
| 42 | all | all | ADV | _ | 43 go | advmod |
| 43 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 wuz | acl:relcl |
| 44 | ter | ter | X | Foreign=Yes | 48 see | nsubj |
| 45 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 44 ter | flat:foreign |
| 46 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 en | compound |
| 47 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 see | nsubj |
| 48 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 go | ccomp |
| 49 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 kyar | compound |
| 50 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Brer | flat |
| 51 | kyar | kyar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 see | obj |
| 52 | out | out | ADP | _ | 48 see | compound:prt |
| 53 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 projick | nmod:poss |
| 54 | projick | projick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 see | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | w'ile Miss Meadows and she en | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | en | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dat in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | take'n in a quote | would | en | loan and young men en's bed cord and en w'iles and de candy wuz | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | could | a coolin in de plates and dey | de candy wuz not said here | all property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | see out in a quote | infinitive | ter | Brer kyar | 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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