Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 54
Des 'fo' day yer come a big black cat in de do', en de nigger git up, he did, en druv her away.
Who acts: yer, en · What happens: come up, git, do · To what, where: big black cat, de, en druv
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 (yer, en), 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 | Des | Des | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 day | compound |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fo | punct |
| 3 | fo | fo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | compound |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fo | punct |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cat | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cat | amod |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cat | amod |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 de | case |
| 13 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cat | nmod |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ', | aux |
| 15 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 19 git | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 git | nsubj |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 en | flat:foreign |
| 18 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 git | compound |
| 19 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 come | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 did | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 druv | punct |
| 25 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 druv | compound |
| 26 | druv | druv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 did | obj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 druv | obj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 did | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | present | yer | a big black cat | de | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cat=Theme | ||
| 2 | git | en | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do | past | en | en druv | away property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent druv=Eventuality |
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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