Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 12
En w'en you bin cas'n shadders long ez de ole nigger, den you'll fine out who's w'ich, en w'ich's who."
Who acts: you, ez, long de ole nigger · What happens: bin, nigger, fine out, be · To what, where: En w'en, w'ich
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ez, long de ole nigger), 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 w'en | compound |
| 2 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bin | obl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 bin | nsubj |
| 4 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | cas'n | cas'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shadders | compound |
| 6 | shadders | shadder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 who | nsubj |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nigger | amod |
| 8 | ez | ez | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 nigger | nsubj |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 nigger | compound |
| 10 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nigger | amod |
| 11 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shadders | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 den | punct |
| 13 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nigger | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 fine | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fine | aux |
| 16 | fine | fine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 nigger | parataxis |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 fine | compound:prt |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 w'ich | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 w'ich | cop |
| 20 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nigger | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 w'ich | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 w'ich | compound |
| 23 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nigger | conj |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 w'ich | case |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 bin | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bin | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin | present | you | En w'en | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | nigger | ez | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fine out | future | you | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | long de ole nigger and den and w'ich and en w'ich | w'ich | 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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