Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 122
I slid up putty close, en wadder you speck I see?
Who acts: I, you · What happens: slide up, speck, see · To what, where: putty, en wadder
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 slid | nsubj |
| 2 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 slid | compound:prt |
| 4 | putty | putty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slid | obj |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 putty | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wadder | punct |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wadder | compound |
| 8 | wadder | wadder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 putty | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 speck | nsubj |
| 10 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wadder | acl:relcl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 speck | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 slid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slide up | past | I | putty and en wadder | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent putty=Agent | ||||
| 2 | speck | present | you | en wadder not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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