Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 2.a Plantation Serenade, sentence 6
Met a 'possum in de road-- Bre' 'Possum, whar you gwine?
Who acts: you · What happens: meet, gwine · To what, where: possum, de road
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 2.a Plantation Serenade. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 possum | det |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 possum | punct |
| 4 | possum | possum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Met | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 6 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 road | compound |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Met | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Possum | punct |
| 9 | Bre | Bre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Possum | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 Bre | case |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Possum | punct |
| 12 | Possum | possum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 road | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 whar | punct |
| 14 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Possum | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 gwine | nsubj |
| 16 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Possum | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | a possum | de road and Bre's Possum and whar and gwine | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possum=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | gwine | you | 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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