Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 100
I won't say I wuz skeer'd," said Uncle Remus, as though endeavoring to recall something he failed to remember, "I won't say I wuz skeer'd, kaze I wuzzent; but I wuz took'n wid a mighty funny feelin' in de naberhood er de gizzard.
Who acts: I, Uncle Remus, Remus, took'n · What happens: not say, wuz, say, endeavor, recall, fail · To what, where: skeer 'd, something, skeer, kaze, mighty funny feelin, de naberhood · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Uncle Remus, Remus, took'n), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 2 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 say | advmod |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 wuz | nsubj |
| 6 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 7 | skeer | skeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 'd | compound |
| 8 | 'd | 'd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wuz | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Remus | compound |
| 13 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 endeavoring | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 endeavoring | advmod |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 endeavoring | mark |
| 17 | endeavoring | endeavor | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 recall | mark |
| 19 | recall | recall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 endeavoring | xcomp |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 recall | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 failed | nsubj |
| 22 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 something | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 remember | mark |
| 24 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 failed | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 say | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 say | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 say | nsubj |
| 28 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 say | aux |
| 29 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 say | advmod |
| 30 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 remember | ccomp |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 wuz | nsubj |
| 32 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 say | ccomp |
| 33 | skeer | skeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wuz | obj |
| 34 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 32 wuz | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 kaze | punct |
| 36 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 say | parataxis |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 wuzzent | nsubj |
| 38 | wuzzent | wuzzent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 kaze | acl:relcl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 wuz | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 wuz | cc |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 wuz | nsubj |
| 42 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 43 | took'n | took'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wid | nsubj |
| 44 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 wuz | ccomp |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 feelin | det |
| 46 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 feelin | amod |
| 47 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 feelin | amod |
| 48 | feelin | feelin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wid | obj |
| 49 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 48 feelin | punct |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 naberhood | case |
| 51 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 52 naberhood | compound |
| 52 | naberhood | naberhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 feelin | nmod |
| 53 | er | er | X | _ | 55 gizzard | compound |
| 54 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 53 er | flat:foreign |
| 55 | gizzard | gizzard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 naberhood | appos |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | future | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wuz | present | I | skeer 'd | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Uncle Remus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | endeavor in a quote | gerund | Uncle Remus not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | recall in a quote | to-infinitive | Uncle Remus not said here | something | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fail in a quote | past | Remus | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | not remember in a quote | to-infinitive | Remus not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | not say speech: assert | future | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | wuz | present | I | skeer | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | wuzzent | present | I | kaze not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | wuz | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 12 | wi | past | took'n | a mighty funny feelin | de naberhood | 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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