Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 24
"Co'se, honey," the old man unhesitatingly responded, "dem w'at git ter de pon' time nuff fer ter git der head in de water, de water hit onkink der ha'r.
Who acts: dem, time nuff, de water · What happens: respond, ter, git, hit · To what, where: old man, onkink der ha'r · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dem, time nuff, de water), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Co'se | punct |
| 2 | Co'se | Co'se | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 honey | punct |
| 4 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Co'se | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Co'se | appos |
| 10 | unhesitatingly | unhesitatingly | ADV | _ | 11 responded | advmod |
| 11 | responded | respond | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 man | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ter | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 ter | punct |
| 14 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ter | nsubj |
| 15 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ter | compound |
| 16 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ter | compound |
| 17 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Co'se | appos |
| 18 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 pon | compound |
| 19 | pon | pon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 time | compound |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 pon | punct |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 nuff | compound |
| 22 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 git | nsubj |
| 23 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 git | compound |
| 24 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 git | compound |
| 25 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ter | parataxis |
| 26 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 head | amod |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 git | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 water | case |
| 29 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 water | compound |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 head | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hit | punct |
| 32 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 33 water | compound |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hit | nsubj |
| 34 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 git | parataxis |
| 35 | onkink | onkink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 ha'r | amod |
| 36 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 ha'r | amod |
| 37 | ha'r | ha'r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hit | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Co'se | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respond speech: other | participle | the old man not said here | unhesitatingly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ter in a quote | dem | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | git in a quote | time nuff | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hit in a quote | past | de water | onkink der ha'r | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ha'r=Co-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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