Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Time Goes By Turns, sentence 1
DAR'S a pow'ful rassle 'twix de Good en de Bad, En de Bad's got de all--under holt; En w'en de wuss come, she come i'on-clad, En you hatter hol' yo' bref for de jolt.
Who acts: DAR, holt, you · What happens: rassle, get, come, hatter · To what, where: twix, i'on clad, hol yo bref
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Time Goes By Turns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (DAR, holt, 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 | DAR | DAR | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rassle | nsubj |
| 2 | 'S | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rassle | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pow'ful | det |
| 4 | pow'ful | pow'ful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rassle | nsubj |
| 5 | rassle | rassle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 twix | punct |
| 7 | twix | twix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rassle | obj |
| 8 | de | de | ADP | _ | 10 en | case |
| 9 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 en | amod |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rassle | obl |
| 11 | de | de | ADP | _ | 12 Bad | case |
| 12 | Bad | Bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 en | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 En | punct |
| 14 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bad | conj |
| 15 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bad | flat |
| 16 | Bad | Bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 holt | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Bad | case |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 holt | amod |
| 19 | de | de | ADV | _ | 18 got | advmod |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 got | advmod |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 holt | punct |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 holt | case |
| 23 | holt | holt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Bad | nsubj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 En | punct |
| 25 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rassle | obj |
| 26 | w'en | w'en | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 En | dep |
| 27 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 w'en | flat |
| 28 | wuss | wuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 w'en | flat:foreign |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rassle | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 come | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 come | nsubj |
| 32 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rassle | conj |
| 33 | i'on | i'on | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 clad | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 i'on | punct |
| 35 | clad | clad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 come | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 En | punct |
| 37 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 clad | appos |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 hatter | nsubj |
| 39 | hatter | hatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 clad | acl:relcl |
| 40 | hol | hol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 bref | compound |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 yo | punct |
| 42 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 bref | compound |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 yo | punct |
| 44 | bref | bref | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 hatter | obj |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 jolt | case |
| 46 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 jolt | amod |
| 47 | jolt | jolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 hatter | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rassle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rassle | present | DAR | twix | de Good en | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | participle | all property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | DAR not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | present | holt | i'on clad | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clad=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hatter | present | you | hol yo bref | for de jolt | 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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