Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 101
Dey wuz mighty perlite, dem young chaps wuz; but Ole Miss, she never tu'n 'er head, en Miss Sally, she look straight at de fier.
Who acts: Dey wuz, wuz · What happens: chap, not tu'n, look · To what, where: wuz
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 (Dey wuz, wuz), 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 | Dey | Dey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wuz | compound |
| 2 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chaps | nsubj |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 perlite | amod |
| 4 | perlite | perlite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wuz | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dem | punct |
| 6 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wuz | conj |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dem | amod |
| 8 | chaps | chap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chaps | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 Miss | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 Miss | cc |
| 12 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Miss | amod |
| 13 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 chaps | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tu'n | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tu'n | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 tu'n | advmod |
| 17 | tu'n | tu'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Miss | appos |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 tu'n | punct |
| 19 | er | er | PART | _ | 20 head | mark |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tu'n | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 en | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Miss | conj |
| 23 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Sally | compound |
| 24 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 en | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 look | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 look | nsubj |
| 27 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 chaps | parataxis |
| 28 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 27 look | advmod |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 fier | case |
| 30 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 fier | compound |
| 31 | fier | fier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 look | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 chaps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chap | present | Dey wuz and mighty perlite and dem | wuz | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not tu'n | wuz | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | wuz | at de fier; straight property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fier=Theme |
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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