Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 7
Dey wuz all dere, en dey wern't cuttin' up no didos, nudder, kaze Miss Meadows, she done put her foot down, she did, en say dat w'en dey come ter her place dey hatter hang up a flag er truce at de front gate en 'bide by it.
Who acts: wuz, Dey wuz, en, dat · What happens: do, put down, say, come, hang up, bide · To what, where: Dey wuz, foot, er truce, de front gate en · 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 (wuz, Dey wuz, en, dat), 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 | Dey | Dey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wuz | compound |
| 2 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 dere | det |
| 4 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wuz | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wer | punct |
| 6 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dey | compound |
| 7 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wer | compound |
| 8 | wer | wer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wuz | conj |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 cuttin | advmod |
| 10 | cuttin | cuttin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wer | conj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 cuttin | punct |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 didos | case |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 didos | det |
| 14 | didos | dido | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cuttin | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nudder | punct |
| 16 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 didos | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kaze | punct |
| 18 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 didos | conj |
| 19 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Meadows | compound |
| 20 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 kaze | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 done | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 done | nsubj |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wuz | acl:relcl |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 foot | nmod:poss |
| 26 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obj |
| 27 | down | down | ADV | _ | 24 put | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 did | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 did | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 put | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 say | punct |
| 32 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 say | nsubj |
| 33 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 did | conj |
| 34 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 come | nsubj |
| 35 | w'en | w'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 dat | flat |
| 36 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dat | conj |
| 37 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 say | ccomp |
| 38 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 42 hatter | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 hatter | nmod:poss |
| 40 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dey | compound |
| 41 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hatter | compound |
| 42 | hatter | hatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 come | obl |
| 43 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 37 come | parataxis |
| 44 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 hang | compound:prt |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 truce | det |
| 46 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 er | compound |
| 47 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 truce | compound |
| 48 | truce | truce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 hang | obl |
| 49 | at | at | ADP | _ | 53 en | case |
| 50 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 en | amod |
| 51 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 en | amod |
| 52 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 en | compound |
| 53 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 hang | obl |
| 54 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 53 en | punct |
| 55 | bide | bide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 43 hang | conj |
| 56 | by | by | ADP | _ | 57 it | case |
| 57 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 bide | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | wuz | Dey wuz and dey wer and cuttin up no didos and nudder and kaze not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wuz=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | put down | past | Dey wuz and dey wer and cuttin up no didos and nudder and kaze | wuz's foot | down property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal | |||
| 3 | do | past | wuz | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | en | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come | present | dat and dey | ter en's dey hatter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hang up | infinitive | a er truce | de front gate en | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at en=Location | ||||
| 7 | bide | infinitive | by dat | 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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