Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 32
I ain't bin useter no cunjun myse'f, but I bin livin' long nuff fer ter know w'en you meets up wid a big black cat in de middle er de road, wid yaller eyeballs, dar's yo' witch fresh fum de Ole Boy.
Who acts: I, you, w'en, yo · What happens: not bin, bin, livin, know, meet up, wi · To what, where: useter, long fer ter, w'en, big black cat, de middle er
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, you, w'en, yo), 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 | useter | useter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bin | obj |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 myse'f | det |
| 7 | cunjun | cunjun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 myse'f | compound |
| 8 | myse'f | myse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bin | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bin | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 bin | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bin | nsubj |
| 12 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bin | parataxis |
| 13 | livin | livin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 bin | xcomp |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 ter | punct |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ter | amod |
| 16 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fer | compound |
| 17 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ter | compound |
| 18 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 livin | obl |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 wid | parataxis |
| 20 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wid | nsubj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 meets | nsubj |
| 22 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 w'en | acl:relcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 meets | compound:prt |
| 24 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bin | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cat | det |
| 26 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cat | amod |
| 27 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cat | amod |
| 28 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wid | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 er | case |
| 30 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 er | compound |
| 31 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 er | compound |
| 32 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cat | nmod |
| 33 | de | de | ADP | _ | 34 road | case |
| 34 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 er | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 eyeballs | punct |
| 36 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 eyeballs | amod |
| 37 | yaller | yaller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 eyeballs | compound |
| 38 | eyeballs | eyeball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 er | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 fum | punct |
| 40 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 yo | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 dar | case |
| 42 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fum | nsubj |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 fum | punct |
| 44 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fum | compound |
| 45 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 fum | amod |
| 46 | fum | fum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 eyeballs | nmod |
| 47 | de | de | ADP | _ | 49 Boy | case |
| 48 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Boy | compound |
| 49 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 fum | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bin | I | useter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bin | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | livin | gerund | I not said here | long fer ter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | meet up | present | you | w'en not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'en=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | wi | past | w'en | a big black cat | de middle er de road and wid yaller eyeballs | tree rules | |||
| 7 | fum | dar's yo | de Ole Boy | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/34/32/