Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 42
He ain't bin broozin' roun' all hours er de night en day.
Who acts: Remus · What happens: not bin · To what, where: broozin
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 (Remus), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 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 | broozin | broozin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bin | obj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 roun | punct |
| 7 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broozin | appos |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 roun | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 hours | det |
| 10 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bin | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | er | er | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 4 bin | conj |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 er | flat:foreign |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 en | compound |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | compound |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 er | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bin | Remus | broozin | hour | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent broozin=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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