Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 39
Witches is deze yer kinder fokes w'at kin drap der body en change inter a cat en a wolf en all kinder creeturs."
Who acts: Witches, yer kinder fokes, deze · What happens: be, drap, change · To what, where: deze, der body en, inter
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 (Witches, yer kinder fokes, deze), 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 | Witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 deze | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 deze | cop |
| 3 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 change | nsubj |
| 4 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 fokes | amod |
| 5 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 fokes | amod |
| 6 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drap | nsubj |
| 7 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kin | compound |
| 8 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fokes | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | drap | drap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 deze | acl:relcl |
| 10 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 en | amod |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 en | compound |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drap | obj |
| 13 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 change | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 en | det |
| 16 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 en | compound |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 change | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 en | det |
| 19 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | compound |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 en | conj |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 kinder | advmod |
| 22 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 creeturs | amod |
| 23 | creeturs | creetur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 en | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 change | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Witches | deze | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drap | present | yer kinder fokes w'at kin | der body en | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | present | deze | inter | 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.
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