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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 119

I wuz stan'in' dat away in de aidge er de woods lookin' out cross a clearin', w'en-- piff!--out come a little bunch er blue smoke fum de top er wunner dem big lonesome-lookin' pines, en den--pow!

Who acts: I, er, woods lookin, little bunch, wunner dem · What happens: wuz, dat away, lookin, cross, come, fum · To what, where: stan'in, clearin w'en, de

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 (I, er, woods lookin, little bunch), 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

nsubjobjpunctxcompadvmodcasecompoundoblnsubjflat:foreigncompoundnsubjpunctadvmodparataxisdetcompounddepobjpunctappospunctpunctoblconjdetamodnsubjccamodconjparataxisoblamodcompoundcompoundnsubjamodcompoundpunctcompoundpunctappospunctcompoundconjpunctconjpunctrootIPRONwuzVERBstan'inNOUN'PUNCTdatVERBawayADVinADPdeXaidgeNOUNerXdeXwoodsNOUNlookinNOUN'PUNCToutADVcrossVERBaDETclearinNOUN',PARTw'enNOUN--PUNCTpiffNOUN!PUNCT--PUNCToutADPcomeVERBaDETlittleADJbunchNOUNerCCONJblueADJsmokeNOUNfumVERBdeXtopADJerNOUNwunnerNOUNdemNOUNbigADJlonesomeNOUN-PUNCTlookinNOUN'PUNCTpinesNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNdenNOUN--PUNCTpowNOUN!PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs2 wuznsubj
2wuzwuzVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3stan'instan'inNOUNNumber=Sing2 wuzobj
4''PUNCT_2 wuzpunct
5datdatVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 wuzxcomp
6awayawayADV_5 datadvmod
7ininADP_9 aidgecase
8dedeXForeign=Yes9 aidgecompound
9aidgeaidgeNOUNNumber=Sing16 crossobl
10ererXForeign=Yes13 lookinnsubj
11dedeXForeign=Yes10 erflat:foreign
12woodswoodNOUNNumber=Plur13 lookincompound
13lookinlookinNOUNNumber=Sing16 crossnsubj
14''PUNCT_13 lookinpunct
15outoutADV_16 crossadvmod
16crosscrossVERBVerbForm=Inf5 datparataxis
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 clearindet
18clearinclearinNOUNNumber=Sing20 w'encompound
19',',PART_18 clearindep
20w'enw'enNOUNNumber=Sing16 crossobj
21----PUNCT_22 piffpunct
22piffpiffNOUNNumber=Sing20 w'enappos
23!!PUNCT_22 piffpunct
24----PUNCT_26 comepunct
25outoutADP_26 comeobl
26comecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 w'enconj
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 bunchdet
28littlelittleADJDegree=Pos29 bunchamod
29bunchbunchNOUNNumber=Sing33 fumnsubj
30ererCCONJ_32 smokecc
31blueblueADJDegree=Pos32 smokeamod
32smokesmokeNOUNNumber=Sing29 bunchconj
33fumfumVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 comeparataxis
34dedeXForeign=Yes33 fumobl
35toptopADJDegree=Pos44 pinesamod
36ererNOUNNumber=Sing37 wunnercompound
37wunnerwunnerNOUNNumber=Sing38 demcompound
38demdemNOUNNumber=Sing44 pinesnsubj
39bigbigADJDegree=Pos44 pinesamod
40lonesomelonesomeNOUNNumber=Sing42 lookincompound
41--PUNCT_40 lonesomepunct
42lookinlookinNOUNNumber=Sing44 pinescompound
43''PUNCT_42 lookinpunct
44pinespineNOUNNumber=Plur34 deappos
45,,PUNCT_47 denpunct
46enenNOUNNumber=Sing47 dencompound
47dendenNOUNNumber=Sing44 pinesconj
48----PUNCT_49 powpunct
49powpowNOUNNumber=Sing44 pinesconj
50!!PUNCT_2 wuzpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wuzpresentIstan'intree rules
2dat awayparticipleI not said hereaway propertytree rules
3lookinertree rules
4crossinfinitivewoods lookinclearin w'enin de aidge; out propertyvn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent w'en=Patient in aidge=Topic
5comepresentwoods lookin not said herevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6fumpresenta little bunch er blue smokedetree rules
7pinewunner demtree rules

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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