Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 44
"Miss Doshy ain't got no time fer ter set dar an' year de ole nigger run on."
Who acts: Doshy ai, fer ter · What happens: not get, set, run on · To what, where: dar
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 (Doshy ai, fer ter), 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 | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 2 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Doshy | compound |
| 3 | Doshy | Doshy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ai | compound |
| 4 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 got | advmod |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 ter | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fer | compound |
| 9 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ter | compound |
| 10 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 run | nsubj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ter | acl |
| 12 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 year | det |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 year | punct |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | de | de | ADP | _ | 18 nigger | case |
| 17 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 nigger | amod |
| 18 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 19 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 run | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | past | Doshy ai | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | set in a quote | participle | no fer ter not said here | dar | year | de ole nigger | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient dar=Result | ||
| 3 | run on in a quote | present | no fer ter | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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