Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 125
"I had good eyes in dem days, ef I ain't got um now, en way up de big road I see Mars Jeems a comm'.
Who acts: en · What happens: have, not get, see · To what, where: good eyes, ef, en way
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 (en), 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 | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 7 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 days | compound |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eyes | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ef | punct |
| 10 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eyes | conj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 12 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 got | advmod |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 ef | acl:relcl |
| 15 | um | um | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 got | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 way | punct |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 way | compound |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obl |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 19 way | advmod |
| 21 | de | de | ADV | _ | 22 big | advmod |
| 22 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 road | amod |
| 23 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 26 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Mars | flat |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 comm | det |
| 29 | comm | comm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obj |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 comm | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | en | good eyes and ef | in dem days | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | not get in a quote | present · passive | en | ef not said here | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ef=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | en | en way | 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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