Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 4
Ef dey ain't some quare gwines on 'roun' dis place I ain't name Remus."
Who acts: I · What happens: not name · To what, where: Remus
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), 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 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dey | compound |
| 2 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ai | compound |
| 3 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | nsubj |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 gwines | advmod |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 gwines | det |
| 6 | quare | quare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gwines | amod |
| 7 | gwines | gwine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 place | nsubj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 roun | case |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 roun | punct |
| 10 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | obl |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 roun | punct |
| 12 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | compound |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 name | nsubj |
| 15 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 name | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 name | advmod |
| 17 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 18 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 name | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 place | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not name | present | I | Remus | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remus=Theme |
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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