Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 109
"'Dat's de fier shinin' on it,' sez I.
Who acts: de fier shinin · What happens: say · To what, where: 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 (de fier shinin), 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 | _ | 7 shinin | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 shinin | punct |
| 3 | Dat | Dat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shinin | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Dat | case |
| 5 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shinin | compound |
| 6 | fier | fier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shinin | compound |
| 7 | shinin | shinin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | nsubj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 shinin | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shinin | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shinin | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 shinin | punct |
| 13 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | I. | I. | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 sez | obj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Dat's de fier shinin on axe | 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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