Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 118
De leaves on de groun' 'uz so wet dey don't make no fuss, en I got in de woods, en w'enever I year de Yankees gwine by, I des stop in my tracks en let un pass.
Who acts: De, uz, I, fuss, tracks en · What happens: leave, not make, get in, gwine, stop, let · To what, where: de groun, de woods
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, uz, I, fuss), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 leaves | nsubj |
| 2 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 groun | case |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 groun | compound |
| 5 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obl |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 groun | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 uz | punct |
| 8 | uz | uz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | nsubj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 wet | advmod |
| 10 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dey | amod |
| 11 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 uz | conj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 make | advmod |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 leaves | ccomp |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 fuss | det |
| 16 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gwine | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 en | punct |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fuss | conj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 got | nsubj |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 en | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 got | advmod |
| 22 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 woods | amod |
| 23 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 got | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 en | punct |
| 25 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fuss | conj |
| 26 | w'enever | w'enever | ADV | _ | 25 en | advmod |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 gwine | nsubj |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gwine | compound |
| 29 | de | de | ADP | _ | 30 Yankees | case |
| 30 | Yankees | yankee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 year | nmod |
| 31 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | ccomp |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 gwine | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 stop | punct |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 stop | nsubj |
| 35 | des | des | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 stop | aux |
| 36 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 leaves | parataxis |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 tracks | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 tracks | nmod:poss |
| 39 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 en | compound |
| 40 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 let | nsubj |
| 41 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 stop | parataxis |
| 42 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 pass | compound |
| 43 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 let | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | De | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not make | present · do-support | uz and wet dey | de groun | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | get in | past | I | de woods | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wood=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | gwine | no fuss and en and en | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | stop | I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | let | infinitive | tracks en | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | pass | infinitive | tracks en not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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