Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 43
I know'd a nigger w'ich his brer wuz a witch, kaze he up'n tole me how he tuck'n kyo'd 'im; en he kyo'd 'im good, mon."
Who acts: I, Remus, kyo, en kyo · What happens: know, tole, im, kyo, ' · To what, where: me · 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 (I, Remus, kyo, en kyo), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 'd | 'd | ADP | _ | 6 w'ich | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 w'ich | det |
| 5 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 w'ich | compound |
| 6 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wuz | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brer | br | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 wuz | amod |
| 9 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 w'ich | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 witch | det |
| 11 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wuz | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kaze | punct |
| 13 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 w'ich | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tole | nsubj |
| 15 | up'n | up'n | CCONJ | _ | 16 tole | cc |
| 16 | tole | tole | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tole | obj |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 tole | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 how | nsubj |
| 20 | tuck'n | tuck'n | CCONJ | _ | 24 im | cc |
| 21 | kyo | kyo | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 im | nsubj |
| 22 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 im | aux |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 im | punct |
| 24 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 he | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 ' | punct |
| 26 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kyo | compound |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 kyo | nsubj |
| 28 | kyo | kyo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ' | nsubj |
| 29 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 ' | aux |
| 30 | ' | ' | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | parataxis |
| 31 | im | im | ADV | _ | 32 good | advmod |
| 32 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 ' | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 mon. | punct |
| 34 | mon. | Monday | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 30 ' | conj |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | 'd a nigger w'ich and Remus's brer wuz a witch and kaze | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tole | infinitive | Remus | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | im | would | kyo | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | kyo | Remus | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | ' | would | en kyo | good property | 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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