Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 59
By nex' mawnin' he got so he could sorter shuffle long, but he gun up cunjun, en ef dere wuz enny mo' witches in dat settlement dey kep' mighty close, en dat nigger he ain't skunt hisse'f no mo' not endurin' er my 'membunce."
Who acts: en, mo witches · What happens: get up, shuffle, gun, kep · To what, where: mighty close, dat settlement dey
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 (en, mo witches), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 nex | case |
| 2 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 mawnin | punct |
| 4 | mawnin | mawnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nex | conj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 nex | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 shuffle | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shuffle | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 shuffle | aux |
| 11 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shuffle | nsubj |
| 12 | shuffle | shuffle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 got | ccomp |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shuffle | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gun | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 gun | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gun | nsubj |
| 17 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 got | compound:prt |
| 19 | cunjun | cunjun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dere | compound |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 en | punct |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cunjun | conj |
| 22 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dere | compound |
| 23 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wuz | compound |
| 24 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 enny | compound |
| 25 | enny | enny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mo | compound |
| 26 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 witches | compound |
| 27 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 26 mo | case |
| 28 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 kep | nsubj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 dey | case |
| 30 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dey | compound |
| 31 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dey | compound |
| 32 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kep | obl |
| 33 | kep | kep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 got | parataxis |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 close | punct |
| 35 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 close | amod |
| 36 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 kep | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 nigger | punct |
| 38 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dat | compound |
| 39 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 nigger | compound |
| 40 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 close | obl |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 ai | nsubj |
| 42 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Vrnc Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 close | conj |
| 43 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 skunt | advmod |
| 44 | skunt | skunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 hisse'f | amod |
| 45 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ai | obj |
| 46 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 47 mo | det |
| 47 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hisse'f | obj |
| 48 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 47 mo | punct |
| 49 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 endurin | advmod |
| 50 | endurin | endurin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 mo | appos |
| 51 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 endurin | punct |
| 52 | er | er | ADP | _ | 55 membunce | case |
| 53 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 membunce | nmod:poss |
| 54 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 53 my | case |
| 55 | membunce | membunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 endurin | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 50 endurin | punct |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 endurin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | en | by nex and mawnin | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | shuffle | could | en | long property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gun | en | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | kep | infinitive | mo witches | mighty close | dat settlement dey | 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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