Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 13
W'en Sat'day evenin' come, dey wuz all dere.
Who acts: W'en evenin · What happens: come · To what, where: dey wuz
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'en evenin), 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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 evenin | compound |
| 2 | Sat'day | Sat'day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W'en | flat |
| 3 | evenin | evenin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 evenin | punct |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wuz | punct |
| 7 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wuz | compound |
| 8 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 dere | det |
| 10 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | W'en evenin | dey wuz | all dere obl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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