Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 63
De pig dat runs off wid de year er corn gits little mo' dan de cob.
Who acts: De pig dat · What happens: run off · To what, where: er corn gits
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De pig dat), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dat | compound |
| 2 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dat | compound |
| 3 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 runs | nsubj |
| 4 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 runs | compound:prt |
| 6 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 year | amod |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 wid | flat:foreign |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 runs | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | er | e | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 gits | amod |
| 10 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gits | compound |
| 11 | gits | git | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 runs | obj |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mo | amod |
| 13 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gits | conj |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 mo | punct |
| 15 | dan | dan | X | _ | 17 cob | compound |
| 16 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cob | amod |
| 17 | cob | cob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mo | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | present | De pig dat | er corn gits and little mo and dan de cob | year | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme git=Trajectory |
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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