Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 42
Leas'ways, dey got dar atter w'ile.
Who acts: Leas'ways · What happens: get · To what, where: dar atter w'ile
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 (Leas'ways), 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 | Leas'ways | leas'way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dey | punct |
| 3 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leas'ways | conj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | dar | dar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 w'ile | amod |
| 6 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 w'ile | compound |
| 7 | w'ile | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Leas'ways and dey | dar atter w'ile | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer w'ile=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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