Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 130
"Co'se, I know all about dat," responded Uncle Remus, "en it sorter made col' chills run up my back; but w'en I see dat man take aim, en Mars Jeems gwine home ter Ole Miss en Miss Sally, I des disremembered all 'bout freedom en lammed aloose.
Who acts: Uncle Remus, soldier, chills, man, freedom en · What happens: know, respond, sorter, make, run up, see · To what, where: dat, en sorter, back, w'en, aim, all · 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 (Uncle Remus, soldier, chills, man), 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 | _ | 2 Co'se | punct |
| 2 | Co'se | co'se | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 responded | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Co'se | parataxis |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 dat | advmod |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 dat | case |
| 8 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Co'se | punct |
| 11 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Remus | compound |
| 13 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 responded | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sorter | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 en | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sorter | compound |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sorter | nsubj |
| 18 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 responded | obl |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 sorter | acl |
| 20 | col | col | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chills | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 20 col | case |
| 22 | chills | chill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 run | nsubj |
| 23 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | parataxis |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 run | compound:prt |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 back | nmod:poss |
| 26 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 run | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 see | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 w'en | cc |
| 29 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 see | obl |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 see | nsubj |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 responded | conj |
| 32 | dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 man | det |
| 33 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 take | nsubj |
| 34 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 see | ccomp |
| 35 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 take | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 en | punct |
| 37 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 see | obl |
| 38 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 gwine | compound |
| 39 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Mars | flat |
| 40 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 Sally | nsubj |
| 41 | home | home | ADV | _ | 40 gwine | advmod |
| 42 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 45 en | case |
| 43 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 en | amod |
| 44 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 en | compound |
| 45 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 Sally | obl |
| 46 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Sally | compound |
| 47 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 en | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 disremembered | punct |
| 49 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 disremembered | nsubj |
| 50 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | 51 disremembered | nsubj |
| 51 | disremembered | disremember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 Sally | acl:relcl |
| 52 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 51 disremembered | obj |
| 53 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 52 all | punct |
| 54 | bout | bout | ADP | _ | 56 en | case |
| 55 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 en | compound |
| 56 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 disremembered | obl |
| 57 | lammed | lam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 56 en | acl |
| 58 | aloose | aloose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 lammed | obj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Uncle Remus = remus | dat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dat=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | respond speech: other | past | Uncle Remus | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sorter in a quote | soldier | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | make in a quote | participle | en sorter not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 5 | run up in a quote | present | col's chills | my back | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme back=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | see in a quote | present | Uncle Remus = remus | w'en | en Miss Sally obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | take in a quote | infinitive | that man | aim | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme | ||||
| 8 | disremember in a quote | past | Uncle Remus = remus | all | bout freedom en | tree rules | |||
| 9 | lam in a quote | participle | freedom en not said here | aloose | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aloose=Patient |
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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