Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 28
"Dey comes diffunt," responded the cautious old darkey. "
Who acts: Dey, cautious old darkey · What happens: come, respond · To what, where: diffunt · 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 (Dey, cautious old darkey), 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 | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 2 | Dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | diffunt | diffunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 7 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 comes | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 darkey | det |
| 9 | cautious | cautious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 darkey | amod |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 darkey | amod |
| 11 | darkey | darkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 responded | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | Dey | diffunt | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location diffunt=Theme | ||||
| 2 | respond speech: other | past | the cautious old darkey | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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