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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 120

"Sez I ter myse'f, sez I: 'Honey, you er right on my route, en I'll des see w'at kinder bird you got roostin' in you,' en w'iles I wuz a lookin' out bus' de smoke--piff! en den--bang!

Who acts: I, you · What happens: ter, say, see, get, wuz out · To what, where: myse'f, I, w'at kinder bird, roostin, lookin, route · Speech: someone speaks here

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, you), 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

punctdiscoursensubjcsubjobjpunctobjpunctpunctoblpunctnsubjadvmodadvmodcasenmod:possoblpunctconjnsubjauxdepacl:relclcompoundamodobjnsubjacl:relclobjpunctcaseoblpunctpunctcompoundconjnsubjconjdetobjpunctcompound:prtcompoundpunctcompoundobjpunctconjpunctcompoundoblpunctconjpunctroot"PUNCTSezINTJIPRONterVERBmyse'fNOUN,PUNCTsezVERBIPRON:PUNCT'PUNCTHoneyNOUN,PUNCTyouPRONerADVrightADVonADPmyPRONrouteNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNIPRON'llAUXdesXseeVERBw'atNOUNkinderADJbirdNOUNyouPRONgotVERBroostinNOUN'PUNCTinADPyouPRON,PUNCT'PUNCTenNOUNw'ilesNOUNIPRONwuzVERBaDETlookinNOUN'PUNCToutADPbusNOUN'PUNCTdeXsmokeNOUN--PUNCTpiffNOUN!PUNCTenNOUNdenNOUN--PUNCTbangNOUN!PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_4 terpunct
2SezsezINTJ_4 terdiscourse
3IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 ternsubj
4terterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 sezcsubj
5myse'fmyse'fNOUNNumber=Sing4 terobj
6,,PUNCT_4 terpunct
7sezsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
8IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs7 sezobj
9::PUNCT_11 Honeypunct
10''PUNCT_11 Honeypunct
11HoneyhoneyNOUNNumber=Sing7 sezobl
12,,PUNCT_39 wuzpunct
13youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs39 wuznsubj
14ererADV_39 wuzadvmod
15rightrightADV_39 wuzadvmod
16ononADP_18 routecase
17mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 routenmod:poss
18routerouteNOUNNumber=Sing39 wuzobl
19,,PUNCT_20 enpunct
20enenNOUNNumber=Sing18 routeconj
21IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs24 seensubj
22'llwillAUXVerbForm=Fin24 seeaux
23desdesXForeign=Yes24 seedep
24seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf20 enacl:relcl
25w'atw'atNOUNNumber=Sing27 birdcompound
26kinderkindADJDegree=Cmp27 birdamod
27birdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing24 seeobj
28youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs29 gotnsubj
29gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 birdacl:relcl
30roostinroostinNOUNNumber=Sing29 gotobj
31''PUNCT_30 roostinpunct
32ininADP_33 youcase
33youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs29 gotobl
34,,PUNCT_37 w'ilespunct
35''PUNCT_37 w'ilespunct
36enenNOUNNumber=Sing37 w'ilescompound
37w'ilesw'ileNOUNNumber=Plur18 routeconj
38IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs39 wuznsubj
39wuzwuzVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 sezconj
40aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art41 lookindet
41lookinlookinNOUNNumber=Sing39 wuzobj
42''PUNCT_41 lookinpunct
43outoutADP_39 wuzcompound:prt
44busbusNOUNNumber=Sing47 smokecompound
45''PUNCT_44 buspunct
46dedeXForeign=Yes47 smokecompound
47smokesmokeNOUNNumber=Sing39 wuzobj
48----PUNCT_49 piffpunct
49piffpiffNOUNNumber=Sing47 smokeconj
50!!PUNCT_52 denpunct
51enenNOUNNumber=Sing52 dencompound
52dendenNOUNNumber=Sing39 wuzobl
53----PUNCT_54 bangpunct
54bangbangNOUNNumber=Sing52 denconj
55!!PUNCT_7 sezpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ter in a quotepresentImyse'ftree rules
2say speech: express in a quotepresentIHoney oblvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Topic
3see in a quotefutureIw'at kinder birdvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
4get in a quotepastyouroostinin youvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer roostin=Stimulus
5wuz out in a quotepresentyoua lookinmy route and en and en w'ilesen den and bang obl; right propertytree 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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