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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wuz | nsubj |
| 2 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | stan'in | stan'in | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wuz | obj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 wuz | punct |
| 5 | dat | dat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wuz | xcomp |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 dat | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 aidge | case |
| 8 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 aidge | compound |
| 9 | aidge | aidge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cross | obl |
| 10 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 lookin | nsubj |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 er | flat:foreign |
| 12 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lookin | compound |
| 13 | lookin | lookin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cross | nsubj |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 lookin | punct |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 cross | advmod |
| 16 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dat | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 clearin | det |
| 18 | clearin | clearin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 w'en | compound |
| 19 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 18 clearin | dep |
| 20 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cross | obj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 piff | punct |
| 22 | piff | piff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 w'en | appos |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 piff | punct |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 come | obl |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 w'en | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bunch | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bunch | amod |
| 29 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fum | nsubj |
| 30 | er | er | CCONJ | _ | 32 smoke | cc |
| 31 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 smoke | amod |
| 32 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bunch | conj |
| 33 | fum | fum | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | parataxis |
| 34 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 33 fum | obl |
| 35 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 pines | amod |
| 36 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wunner | compound |
| 37 | wunner | wunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dem | compound |
| 38 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 pines | nsubj |
| 39 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 pines | amod |
| 40 | lonesome | lonesome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 lookin | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 lonesome | punct |
| 42 | lookin | lookin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 pines | compound |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 lookin | punct |
| 44 | pines | pine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 de | appos |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 den | punct |
| 46 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 den | compound |
| 47 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 pines | conj |
| 48 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 49 pow | punct |
| 49 | pow | pow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 pines | conj |
| 50 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz | present | I | stan'in | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dat away | participle | I not said here | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lookin | er | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | cross | infinitive | woods lookin | clearin w'en | in de aidge; out property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent w'en=Patient in aidge=Topic | |||
| 5 | come | present | woods lookin not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fum | present | a little bunch er blue smoke | de | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | pine | wunner dem | tree 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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