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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ter | punct |
| 2 | Sez | sez | INTJ | _ | 4 ter | discourse |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ter | nsubj |
| 4 | ter | ter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sez | csubj |
| 5 | myse'f | myse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ter | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ter | punct |
| 7 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sez | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Honey | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Honey | punct |
| 11 | Honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sez | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 wuz | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 wuz | nsubj |
| 14 | er | er | ADV | _ | 39 wuz | advmod |
| 15 | right | right | ADV | _ | 39 wuz | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 route | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 route | nmod:poss |
| 18 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wuz | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 en | punct |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 route | conj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 22 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 23 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 see | dep |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 en | acl:relcl |
| 25 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bird | compound |
| 26 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 bird | amod |
| 27 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 see | obj |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 got | nsubj |
| 29 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 bird | acl:relcl |
| 30 | roostin | roostin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 got | obj |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 roostin | punct |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 got | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 w'iles | punct |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 w'iles | punct |
| 36 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 w'iles | compound |
| 37 | w'iles | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 route | conj |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 wuz | nsubj |
| 39 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sez | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 lookin | det |
| 41 | lookin | lookin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wuz | obj |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 lookin | punct |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 wuz | compound:prt |
| 44 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 smoke | compound |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 bus | punct |
| 46 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 47 smoke | compound |
| 47 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wuz | obj |
| 48 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 49 piff | punct |
| 49 | piff | piff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 smoke | conj |
| 50 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 52 den | punct |
| 51 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 den | compound |
| 52 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wuz | obl |
| 53 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 54 bang | punct |
| 54 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 den | conj |
| 55 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ter in a quote | present | I | myse'f | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express in a quote | present | I | Honey obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | future | I | w'at kinder bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | past | you | roostin | in you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer roostin=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | wuz out in a quote | present | you | a lookin | my route and en and en w'iles | en den and bang obl; right property | 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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