Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 10
"Yasser," continued Uncle Remus, with an ominous sigh and mysterious shake of the head, "ef dey ain't some quare gwines on in dish yer naberhood, den I'm de ball-headest creetur 'twix' dis en nex' Jinawerry wuz a year 'go, w'ich I knows I ain't.
Who acts: Yasser, quare gwines, I, ball · What happens: continue, not naberhood, be, head, know · To what, where: Uncle Remus, creetur, w'ich
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yasser, quare gwines, I, ball), 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 | _ | 2 Yasser | punct |
| 2 | Yasser | Yasser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yasser | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yasser | punct |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Remus | compound |
| 7 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sigh | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 sigh | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sigh | det |
| 11 | ominous | ominous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sigh | amod |
| 12 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shake | cc |
| 14 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shake | amod |
| 15 | shake | shake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sigh | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 head | det |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shake | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ai | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 ai | punct |
| 21 | ef | ef | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ai | amod |
| 22 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ai | compound |
| 23 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sigh | parataxis |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 naberhood | advmod |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 gwines | det |
| 26 | quare | quare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 gwines | amod |
| 27 | gwines | gwine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 naberhood | nsubj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 dish | case |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 dish | case |
| 30 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gwines | nmod |
| 31 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 naberhood | amod |
| 32 | naberhood | naberhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ai | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 den | punct |
| 34 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 naberhood | conj |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 de | nsubj |
| 36 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 de | cop |
| 37 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 naberhood | parataxis |
| 38 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 de | obl |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 headest | punct |
| 40 | headest | head | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 ball | acl:relcl |
| 41 | creetur | creetur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 headest | obj |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 twix | punct |
| 43 | twix | twix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 nex | compound |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 twix | punct |
| 45 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 en | compound |
| 46 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 nex | compound |
| 47 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 creetur | conj |
| 48 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 wuz | punct |
| 49 | Jinawerry | Jinawerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 wuz | compound |
| 50 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 nex | appos |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 year | det |
| 52 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 go | nmod:poss |
| 53 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 52 year | case |
| 54 | go | go | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 wuz | appos |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 w'ich | punct |
| 56 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 wuz | conj |
| 57 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 58 knows | nsubj |
| 58 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 w'ich | acl:relcl |
| 59 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 60 ai | nsubj |
| 60 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 knows | ccomp |
| 61 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 60 ai | advmod |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Yasser | Uncle Remus | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent remus=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not naberhood in a quote | some quare gwines on dish | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | I | ball obl; de property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | head in a quote | present | ball not said here | creetur and twix en nex | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creetur=Theme | ||||
| 5 | know in a quote | present | I | w'ich not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer w'ich=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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