Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 8
"Well, den, w'iles dey wuz all a settin' dar en de 'lasses wuz a bilin' en a blubberin', dey got ter runnin' on talkin' mighty biggity.
Who acts: de lasses, blubberin dey · What happens: wuz, get · To what, where: den dey wuz, ter runnin
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 (de lasses, blubberin dey), 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 | _ | 8 wuz | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 wuz | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wuz | compound |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 w'iles | punct |
| 6 | w'iles | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 den | conj |
| 7 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wuz | compound |
| 8 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wuz | obl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 settin | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 settin | det |
| 11 | settin | settin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 de | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 settin | case |
| 13 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 en | compound |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 de | compound |
| 15 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lasses | compound |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 de | punct |
| 17 | lasses | lass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wuz | nsubj |
| 18 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bilin | det |
| 20 | bilin | bilin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 en | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 20 bilin | case |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wuz | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 dey | det |
| 24 | blubberin | blubberin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dey | compound |
| 25 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 24 blubberin | dep |
| 26 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 got | nsubj |
| 27 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wuz | parataxis |
| 28 | ter | ter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 runnin | amod |
| 29 | runnin | runnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 got | obj |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 runnin | punct |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 talkin | case |
| 32 | talkin | talkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 biggity | nmod |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 talkin | punct |
| 34 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 biggity | amod |
| 35 | biggity | biggity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 got | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz in a quote | present | de lasses | den dey wuz | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | a blubberin dey | ter runnin | mighty biggity on talkin obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer runnin=Stimulus |
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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