Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 74
Many en many's de time dat I toted yo' Unk Jeems dat away, en Mars Jeems wuz heavier sot dan w'at you is."
Who acts: I, en · What happens: tote, be · To what, where: yo
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 en | amod |
| 2 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dat | nsubj |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dat | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 many | case |
| 5 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dat | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dat | compound |
| 7 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 toted | nsubj |
| 9 | toted | tote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dat | acl:relcl |
| 10 | yo | you | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 toted | obj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 dat | punct |
| 12 | Unk | Unk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 dat | compound |
| 13 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Unk | flat |
| 14 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 toted | obl |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 toted | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 en | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 is | nsubj |
| 18 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 wuz | compound |
| 19 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Mars | flat |
| 20 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sot | compound |
| 21 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 sot | amod |
| 22 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 w'at | compound |
| 23 | dan | dan | X | _ | 24 w'at | compound |
| 24 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 you | nmod:desc |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 en | conj |
| 26 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dat | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dat | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tote | past | I | yo | Unk dat obl; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | present | en | vn exist-47.1 «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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