Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 106
"Wid dat I got up en tuck my stan' behime Ole Miss en Miss Sally, en de man w'at speak, he went up en worn his han's.
Who acts: Wid dat, en, dat · What happens: get up, tuck, go up, wear · To what, where: en, behime, han
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 (Wid dat, en, dat), 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 got | punct |
| 2 | Wid | Wid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dat | compound |
| 3 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | tuck | tuck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 got | xcomp |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 behime | nmod:poss |
| 10 | stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 behime | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 stan | case |
| 12 | behime | behime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tuck | obj |
| 13 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Miss | compound |
| 14 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 en | compound |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Miss | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 behime | nmod |
| 17 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Miss | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 en | punct |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Miss | appos |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 en | flat:foreign |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 w'at | compound |
| 22 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 speak | compound |
| 23 | speak | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 en | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 went | compound:prt |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 29 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 en | acl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 han | nmod:poss |
| 31 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 worn | obj |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 han | case |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up in a quote | past | Wid dat | en | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tuck in a quote | infinitive | en not said here | my behime Miss Miss en | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent behime=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go up in a quote | past | dat | en | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | wear in a quote | participle | en not said here | dat's han | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent han=Source |
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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