Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 16
But atter 'w'ile de news come dat dere wuz a pon' er water some'rs in de naberhood, w'ich ef dey'd git inter dey'd be wash off nice en w'ite, en den one un um, he fine de place en make er splunge inter de pon', en come out w'ite ez a town gal.
Who acts: atter w'ile, er water some'rs, tergedder, er, inter · What happens: come, wuz, be, make, splunge, come out · To what, where: dere, er, w'ite
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (atter w'ile, er water some'rs, tergedder, er), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 come | cc |
| 2 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 w'ile | compound |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 atter | punct |
| 4 | w'ile | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 w'ile | flat:foreign |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 w'ile | conj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wuz | advcl |
| 8 | dat | dat | ADV | _ | 9 dere | advmod |
| 9 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 10 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pon | det |
| 12 | pon | pon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 some'rs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 12 pon | case |
| 14 | er | e | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 some'rs | amod |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 some'rs | compound |
| 16 | some'rs | some'r | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 wash | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 naberhood | case |
| 18 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 naberhood | compound |
| 19 | naberhood | naberhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 some'rs | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 git | punct |
| 21 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ef | compound |
| 22 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dey | compound |
| 23 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 git | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 'd | 'd | PART | _ | 23 dey | case |
| 25 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 some'rs | appos |
| 26 | inter | int | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 dey | amod |
| 27 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 git | conj |
| 28 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 wash | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 wash | cop |
| 30 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wuz | parataxis |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 wash | compound:prt |
| 32 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 w'ite | amod |
| 33 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 w'ite | compound |
| 34 | w'ite | w'ite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wash | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 den | punct |
| 36 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 den | compound |
| 37 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 w'ite | conj |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 um | nummod |
| 39 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 um | compound |
| 40 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wash | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 make | punct |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 make | nsubj |
| 43 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 en | amod |
| 44 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 en | amod |
| 45 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 en | compound |
| 46 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 he | conj |
| 47 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 wash | advcl |
| 48 | er | er | X | _ | 47 make | obj |
| 49 | splunge | splunge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 make | xcomp |
| 50 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 come | nsubj |
| 51 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 50 inter | flat:foreign |
| 52 | pon | pon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 inter | conj |
| 53 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 52 pon | dep |
| 54 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 inter | conj |
| 55 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 splunge | ccomp |
| 56 | out | out | ADV | _ | 55 come | advmod |
| 57 | w'ite | w'ite | X | Foreign=Yes | 55 come | obl |
| 58 | ez | ez | X | Foreign=Yes | 57 w'ite | flat:foreign |
| 59 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 61 gal | det |
| 60 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 gal | compound |
| 61 | gal | gal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 w'ite | obj |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | atter w'ile and news | dere | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wuz | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | would | a pon's er water some'rs in de naberhood | one un um obl; wash property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | present | tergedder | er | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | splunge | infinitive | er not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come out | present | inter and pon and en | w'ite | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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