Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 112
But dey didn't bodder nobody ner tech nuthin', en bimeby dey put out.
Who acts: dey · What happens: do, put out · To what, where: nuthin bimeby dey
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 did | cc |
| 2 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 bodder | advmod |
| 5 | bodder | bodd | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 nuthin | amod |
| 6 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 ner | compound |
| 7 | ner | ner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tech | compound |
| 8 | tech | tech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nuthin | compound |
| 9 | nuthin | nuthin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dey | compound |
| 10 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 9 nuthin | dep |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bimeby | compound |
| 12 | bimeby | bimeby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dey | compound |
| 13 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 dey | acl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 put | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | dey | nuthin bimeby dey | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dey=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | put out | participle | nuthin bimeby dey not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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