Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 25
W'en I see coon track in de branch, I know de coon bin 'long dar."
Who acts: I · What happens: see, know · To what, where: W'en, de branch
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), 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 see | obl |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | coon | coon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 track | compound |
| 5 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 branch | case |
| 7 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 branch | amod |
| 8 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 12 | de | de | ADP | _ | 14 bin | case |
| 13 | coon | coon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bin | compound |
| 14 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dar | nmod |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 bin | punct |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dar | amod |
| 17 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | W'en | de branch | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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