Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 121
Wid dat I des drapt back inter de woods, en sorter skeerted 'roun' so's ter git de tree 'twixt' me en de road.
Who acts: Wid dat, en sorter, ter git · What happens: drapt, skeert, twixt · To what, where: inter de woods, roun
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 (Wid dat, en sorter, ter git), 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 | Wid | Wid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dat | compound |
| 2 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drapt | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 drapt | nsubj |
| 4 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 drapt | dep |
| 5 | drapt | drapt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 inter | advmod |
| 7 | inter | int | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 woods | amod |
| 8 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woods | compound |
| 9 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drapt | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 skeerted | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sorter | compound |
| 12 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 skeerted | nsubj |
| 13 | skeerted | skeert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drapt | conj |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 roun | punct |
| 15 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 skeerted | obj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 roun | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 twixt | advmod |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 git | punct |
| 19 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 git | compound |
| 20 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 twixt | nsubj |
| 21 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 git | flat:foreign |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 twixt | compound |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 twixt | punct |
| 24 | twixt | twixt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 skeerted | obl |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 twixt | punct |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 twixt | conj |
| 27 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 twixt | conj |
| 28 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 29 road | compound |
| 29 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 en | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drapt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drapt | infinitive | Wid dat | inter de woods | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | skeert | past | en sorter | roun | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | twixt | ter git | 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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