Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 7
De gents, dey wuz a co'tin, but Miss Meadows, she don't wanter marry none un um, en needer duz de gals, en likewise dey don't wanter have um pester'n 'roun.'
Who acts: ud, none, duz de gals · What happens: not marry, gal, not have · To what, where: um
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 (ud, none, duz de gals), 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 | De | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gents | amod |
| 2 | gents | gent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wuz | punct |
| 4 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wuz | compound |
| 5 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gents | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 co'tin | det |
| 7 | co'tin | co'tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wuz | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Meadows | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 Meadows | cc |
| 10 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Meadows | compound |
| 11 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 gents | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 marry | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 marry | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 marry | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 marry | advmod |
| 16 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 marry | nsubj |
| 17 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gents | conj |
| 18 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 26 gals | nsubj |
| 19 | un | un | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 um | compound |
| 20 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 none | compound |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 en | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 none | conj |
| 23 | needer | needer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 duz | compound |
| 24 | duz | duz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gals | compound |
| 25 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gals | compound |
| 26 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 have | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 en | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gals | conj |
| 29 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 30 dey | advmod |
| 30 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 en | nmod |
| 31 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 have | aux |
| 32 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 have | advmod |
| 33 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 have | nsubj |
| 34 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 marry | ccomp |
| 35 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 have | obj |
| 36 | pester'n | pester'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 roun | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 36 pester'n | case |
| 38 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 have | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gents | punct |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 gents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not marry | present · do-support | ud | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gal | none | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not have | present · do-support | duz de gals and en dey | um | 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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