Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 16
I know'd you de minnit I laid eyes on you.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: know, de, lay · To what, where: minnit, eyes · 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 (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 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 'd | 'd | SCONJ | _ | 5 de | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 de | nsubj |
| 5 | de | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | ccomp |
| 6 | minnit | minnit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 de | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 laid | nsubj |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 de | ccomp |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 laid | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 laid | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | de | present | you | minnit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | I | eyes | on you | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on you=Destination |
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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