Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 57
Las', yer come a great big black wolf wid his eyes shinin' like fier coals, en he grab de hide and rush out. '
Who acts: Las, great big black wolf, en, eyes shinin · What happens: come, wi, grab, hide, rush out · To what, where: en
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 (Las, great big black wolf, en, eyes shinin), 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 | Las | la | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | nsubj |
| 2 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 1 Las | case |
| 3 | yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Las | nmod |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wolf | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wolf | amod |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wolf | amod |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wolf | amod |
| 9 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wid | nsubj |
| 10 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shinin | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shinin | compound |
| 13 | shinin | shinin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hide | nsubj |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 shinin | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 coals | case |
| 16 | fier | fier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 coals | compound |
| 17 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shinin | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 en | punct |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 coals | conj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 grab | nsubj |
| 21 | grab | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 19 en | acl:relcl |
| 22 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 grab | xcomp |
| 23 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wid | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rush | cc |
| 25 | rush | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 hide | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 rush | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | Las yer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wi | past | a great big black wolf | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | grab | present | en | en not said here | de property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme | |||
| 4 | hide | present | wolf's eyes shinin like fier coals and en | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | rush out | present | wolf's eyes shinin like fier coals and en not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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