Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 36
Sho nuff, out he goes, en de dogs ain't no mo'n got ter de place fo' up jump de old rabbit right 'mong um, en atter runnin''roun' a time or two, she skip right up ter Mars Jeems, en Mars Jeems, he des put de gun-bar'l right on 'er en lammed aloose.
Who acts: Sho nuff, mo'n, nuff, er en · What happens: go, not get, skip, de, put, lam · To what, where: de place fo, Mars, put de gun bar'l, er en, aloose · 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 (Sho nuff, mo'n, nuff, er en), 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 | Sho | Sho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 nuff | compound |
| 2 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 goes | punct |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 goes | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 goes | nsubj |
| 6 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ai | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 de | compound |
| 9 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dogs | compound |
| 10 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ai | nsubj |
| 11 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 goes | conj |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 got | advmod |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 mo'n | det |
| 14 | mo'n | mo'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ai | ccomp |
| 16 | ter | ter | ADV | _ | 19 fo | advmod |
| 17 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fo | amod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fo | compound |
| 19 | fo | fo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 fo | punct |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 jump | case |
| 22 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fo | nmod |
| 23 | de | de | ADV | _ | 24 old | advmod |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rabbit | amod |
| 25 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 um | nmod:poss |
| 26 | right | right | ADV | _ | 27 ' | advmod |
| 27 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 25 rabbit | case |
| 28 | mong | mong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 um | compound |
| 29 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 jump | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 runnin | punct |
| 31 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 atter | compound |
| 32 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 runnin | compound |
| 33 | runnin | runnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fo | conj |
| 34 | '' | '' | PUNCT | _ | 35 roun | punct |
| 35 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 runnin | appos |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 roun | punct |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 time | det |
| 38 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 runnin | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 two | cc |
| 40 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 time | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 skip | punct |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 skip | nsubj |
| 43 | skip | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | parataxis |
| 44 | right | right | ADV | _ | 45 up | advmod |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 47 Mars | case |
| 46 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 47 Mars | case |
| 47 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 skip | obl |
| 48 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Mars | flat |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 en | punct |
| 50 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 Mars | conj |
| 51 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 en | appos |
| 52 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Mars | flat |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 des | punct |
| 54 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 des | nsubj |
| 55 | des | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 skip | conj |
| 56 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 60 bar'l | amod |
| 57 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 60 bar'l | compound |
| 58 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 bar'l | compound |
| 59 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 58 gun | punct |
| 60 | bar'l | bar'l | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 des | obj |
| 61 | right | right | ADV | _ | 65 en | advmod |
| 62 | on | on | ADP | _ | 65 en | case |
| 63 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 65 en | punct |
| 64 | er | er | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 en | amod |
| 65 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 des | obl |
| 66 | lammed | lam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 65 en | acl |
| 67 | aloose | aloose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 lammed | obj |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Sho nuff | out property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not get | past | no mo'n | de place fo and atter runnin | up jump old rabbit's mong um | tree rules | |||
| 3 | skip in a quote | present | mo'n | Mars and en | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up mars=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | de in a quote | present | nuff | put de gun bar'l | er en | tree rules | |||
| 5 | put in a quote | participle | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | lam in a quote | participle | er en not said here | aloose | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aloose=Patient |
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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