Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 104
"'Well, boss,' sez I, 'I bin cuttin' some wood fer Ole Miss, en I des stop fer ter worn my han's a little,' sez I.
Who acts: en, han, boss · What happens: bin, stop, wear, be, say · To what, where: cuttin, fer ter, I. · 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 (en, han, boss), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 boss | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 boss | punct |
| 3 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 boss | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Well | punct |
| 5 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sez | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ' | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 boss | punct |
| 8 | sez | sez | ADP | _ | 9 I | case |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 boss | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bin | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 bin | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bin | nsubj |
| 13 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 boss | conj |
| 14 | cuttin | cuttin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bin | obj |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 cuttin | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 wood | det |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bin | obj |
| 18 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 wood | amod |
| 19 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Miss | amod |
| 20 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fer | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 en | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wood | conj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 stop | nsubj |
| 24 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stop | det |
| 25 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 en | acl:relcl |
| 26 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 ter | amod |
| 27 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stop | obj |
| 28 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 ter | acl |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 han | nmod:poss |
| 30 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 little | nsubj |
| 31 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 little | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 little | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 worn | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 boss | punct |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 boss | punct |
| 36 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 37 | I. | I. | X | Foreign=Yes | 36 sez | obj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin in a quote | present | en | cuttin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop in a quote | present | en | fer ter | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ter=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | wear in a quote | participle | fer ter not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | my han | little property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | boss sez I | I. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i.=Topic |
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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