Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 115
Mars Jeems wuz wid dem Wheeler fellers, en I know'd ef dey wuz dat close I wa'n't doin' no good settin' 'roun' de house toas'n my shins at de fier, so I des tuck Mars Jeems's rifle fum behime de do' en put out ter look atter my stock.
Who acts: Mars, I, 'd, good settin, wid Wheeler fellers, my · What happens: feller, know, not doin, house, fum, do · To what, where: en, behime
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 (Mars, I, 'd, good settin), 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 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fellers | nsubj |
| 2 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mars | flat |
| 3 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fellers | nsubj |
| 4 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fellers | amod |
| 5 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Wheeler | compound |
| 6 | Wheeler | wheeler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fellers | compound |
| 7 | fellers | feller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 do | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 en | punct |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fellers | conj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 en | acl:relcl |
| 12 | 'd | 'd | X | _ | 21 doin | nsubj |
| 13 | ef | ef | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wuz | amod |
| 14 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wuz | compound |
| 15 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 'd | flat |
| 16 | dat | dat | ADV | _ | 12 'd | advmod |
| 17 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 'd | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 doin | nsubj |
| 19 | wa' | wa' | INTJ | _ | 21 doin | discourse |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 doin | advmod |
| 21 | doin | doin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fellers | parataxis |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 doin | punct |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 settin | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 settin | amod |
| 25 | settin | settin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 house | nsubj |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 settin | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 roun | punct |
| 28 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 house | compound |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 roun | punct |
| 30 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 house | compound |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 doin | parataxis |
| 32 | toas'n | toas'n | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 house | appos |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 shins | nmod:poss |
| 34 | shins | shin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 toas'n | obj |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 fier | case |
| 36 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 37 fier | compound |
| 37 | fier | fier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shins | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 fum | punct |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 47 fum | advmod |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 fum | nsubj |
| 41 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 rifle | det |
| 42 | tuck | tuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 rifle | compound |
| 43 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 rifle | nmod:poss |
| 44 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Mars | flat |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 Mars | case |
| 46 | rifle | rifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fum | nsubj |
| 47 | fum | fum | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fellers | parataxis |
| 48 | behime | behime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fum | obj |
| 49 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 47 fum | flat |
| 50 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 51 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 52 en | punct |
| 52 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 do | obl |
| 53 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 en | acl |
| 54 | out | out | ADP | _ | 53 put | compound:prt |
| 55 | ter | ter | PART | _ | 56 look | mark |
| 56 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 53 put | advcl |
| 57 | atter | att | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 56 look | xcomp |
| 58 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 stock | nmod:poss |
| 59 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 atter | nsubj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 50 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feller | Mars | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | know | present | I | en not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not doin | 'd | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | house | no good settin | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | fum | infinitive | I | behime | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | present | wid Wheeler fellers and en | en | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | put out | participle | en not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | look | infinitive | att property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | stock | my | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=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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