Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 17
Time I seed you, I say ter myse'f, 'I lay dar's Miss Doshy,' en, sho nuff, dar you wuz.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: say, lay, wuz · To what, where: ter myse'f, Miss, dar · 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seed | compound |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 seed | nsubj |
| 3 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 seed | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seed | parataxis |
| 8 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 myse'f | compound |
| 9 | myse'f | myse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 lay | nsubj |
| 13 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | conj |
| 14 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Miss | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 dar | case |
| 16 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obj |
| 17 | Doshy | Doshy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Miss | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 en | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 en | punct |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 nuff | punct |
| 22 | sho | sho | NOUN | _ | 23 nuff | compound |
| 23 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dar | punct |
| 25 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 nuff | appos |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 wuz | nsubj |
| 27 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 dar | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | I | ter myse'f | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent myse'f=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | I | dar's Miss | en and sho nuff obl | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miss=Result | |||
| 3 | wuz | present | you | dar not said here | 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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