Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Time Goes By Turns, sentence 3
Good had de inturn, en he stan' like a rock, En he bleedzd for ter be on top.
Who acts: Good · What happens: de, stan, bleedz, be · To what, where: inturn, en, top
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 (Good), 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 | Good | Good | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 de | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 de | aux |
| 3 | de | de | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | inturn | inturn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 de | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 en | punct |
| 6 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inturn | conj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stan | nsubj |
| 8 | stan | stan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 en | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 bleedzd | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 rock | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rock | det |
| 12 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bleedzd | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 En | punct |
| 14 | En | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rock | conj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bleedzd | nsubj |
| 16 | bleedzd | bleedz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stan | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 ter | case |
| 18 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bleedzd | obl |
| 19 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bleedzd | xcomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 top | case |
| 21 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 be | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 de | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | de | past · perfect | Good | inturn and en | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stan | past | Good | en not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bleedz | past | Good | like a rock and En; for ter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | infinitive | Good not said here | top | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location |
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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