Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 133
Des 'bout dat time I quit nuss'n 'im, but Miss Sally she kep' on.
Who acts: I, Miss Sally · What happens: quit, kep · To what, where: nuss'n
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, Miss Sally), 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 | Des | Des | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Des | case |
| 3 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dat | compound |
| 4 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | compound |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quit | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 quit | nsubj |
| 7 | quit | quit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | nuss'n | nuss'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quit | obj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 im | punct |
| 10 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nuss'n | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kep | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 kep | cc |
| 13 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sally | compound |
| 14 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 kep | nsubj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 kep | nsubj |
| 16 | kep | kep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 quit | conj |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 kep | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADV | _ | 16 kep | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 quit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quit | present | I | nuss'n and im | time | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nuss'n=Source | |||
| 2 | kep | infinitive | Miss Sally | 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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