Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 18
Well, w'en you see two stran' er ha'r tied tergedder in a hoss's mane, dar you see a witch-stirrup, en, mo'n dat, dat hoss done bin rid by um."
Who acts: you, two stran, dat hoss · What happens: see, tie, tergedder, do, rid · To what, where: w'en, mane, witch stirrup, bin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, two stran, dat hoss), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 see | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 stran | nummod |
| 7 | stran | stran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tergedder | nsubj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 stran | punct |
| 9 | er | er | X | _ | 10 ha'r | compound |
| 10 | ha'r | ha'r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tergedder | compound |
| 11 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tergedder | amod |
| 12 | tergedder | tergedder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 mane | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hoss | det |
| 15 | hoss | hoss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mane | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 hoss | case |
| 17 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tergedder | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dar | punct |
| 19 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tergedder | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 see | nsubj |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 dar | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stirrup | det |
| 23 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stirrup | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 witch | punct |
| 25 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 en | punct |
| 27 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stirrup | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dat | punct |
| 29 | mo'n | mo'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dat | compound |
| 30 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stirrup | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hoss | punct |
| 32 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hoss | compound |
| 33 | hoss | hoss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dat | appos |
| 34 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 hoss | acl |
| 35 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 done | obj |
| 36 | rid | rid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 bin | acl |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 um | case |
| 38 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rid | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | w'en | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | tie | participle | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | tergedder | two stran | a hoss's mane | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | present | you | a witch stirrup and en and mo'n dat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stirrup=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | do | participle | dat hoss not said here | bin | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | rid | participle | bin not said here | by um | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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