Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 35
Down dar in Putmon County yo' Unk Jeems, he make like he gwineter ketch wunner dem dar graveyard rabbits.
Who acts: dar · What happens: make · To what, where: graveyard rabbits
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 (dar), 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 2 dar | advmod |
| 2 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 yo | case |
| 4 | Putmon | Putmon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 County | compound |
| 5 | County | County | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 yo | compound |
| 6 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dar | nmod |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Unk | punct |
| 8 | Unk | Unk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 yo | appos |
| 9 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Unk | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | nsubj |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 he | case |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obl |
| 15 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ketch | compound |
| 16 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wunner | compound |
| 17 | wunner | wunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dem | compound |
| 18 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 graveyard | compound |
| 19 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 graveyard | compound |
| 20 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rabbits | compound |
| 21 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 make | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | dar in County yo | graveyard rabbits | like yo | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rabbit=Product |
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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