Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 113
Well, de Yankees, dey kep' passin' all de mawnin' en it look like ter me dey wuz a string un um ten mile long.
Who acts: Yankees, passin · What happens: kep, look · To what, where: passin, mawnin en
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 (Yankees, passin), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 kep | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Yankees | punct |
| 3 | de | de | ADP | _ | 4 Yankees | case |
| 4 | Yankees | yankee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kep | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dey | punct |
| 6 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Yankees | conj |
| 7 | kep | kep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 passin | punct |
| 9 | passin | passin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kep | obj |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 passin | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 en | det |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 mawnin | compound |
| 13 | mawnin | mawnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 en | compound |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 en | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kep | obj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 look | nsubj |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 15 en | acl:relcl |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 wuz | case |
| 19 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 22 wuz | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 wuz | nsubj |
| 21 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wuz | compound |
| 22 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 mile | det |
| 24 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 un | compound |
| 25 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 um | compound |
| 26 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mile | compound |
| 27 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 um | flat |
| 28 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 long | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 wuz | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kep | infinitive | Yankees and dey | passin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present | passin | all mawnin en not said here | like dey wuz | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Attribute |
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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