Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 53
Den he lay down en watch fer ter see w'at de news wuz gwineter be.
Who acts: Den · What happens: lie down, see, be · To what, where: fer ter, w'at · 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 (Den), 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 | Den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 lay | compound:prt |
| 5 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watch | compound |
| 6 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fer | compound |
| 7 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ter | compound |
| 8 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lay | conj |
| 10 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gwineter | amod |
| 12 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wuz | compound |
| 13 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gwineter | compound |
| 14 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 w'at | conj |
| 15 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 see | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | Den | fer ter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | Den not said here | w'at and de wuz gwineter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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