Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 14
I ain't bin in de lot mo'n a minnit 'fo' I seed sump'n wuz wrong wid de hoss, and sho' nuff dar wuz his mane full er witch-stirrups."
Who acts: I, sho · What happens: not bin, wuz · To what, where: de lot
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 (I, sho), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bin | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | ai | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bin | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bin | advmod |
| 4 | bin | bin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 lot | case |
| 6 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lot | amod |
| 7 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bin | obl |
| 8 | mo'n | mo'n | CCONJ | _ | 10 minnit | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 minnit | det |
| 10 | minnit | minnit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lot | conj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 minnit | punct |
| 12 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 15 seed | case |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 seed | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 seed | nsubj |
| 15 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bin | obl |
| 16 | sump'n | sump'n | CCONJ | _ | 17 wuz | cc |
| 17 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seed | conj |
| 18 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hoss | amod |
| 19 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 de | compound |
| 20 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hoss | compound |
| 21 | hoss | hoss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seed | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wuz | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wuz | cc |
| 24 | sho | sho | NOUN | _ | 28 wuz | nsubj |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 wuz | punct |
| 26 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dar | compound |
| 27 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wuz | compound |
| 28 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bin | obl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mane | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wuz | conj |
| 31 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 mane | amod |
| 32 | er | e | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 stirrups | amod |
| 33 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stirrups | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 witch | punct |
| 35 | stirrups | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 full | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bin | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bin | I | de lot mo'n a minnit | for seed sump'n wuz and wrong de hoss | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in lot=Destination | ||||
| 2 | wuz | sho | 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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