Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 48
"Co'se," said Uncle Remus, addressing himself to Miss Theodosia, "you ain't bin to Putmon, en you dunner whar de Brad Slaughter place en Harmony Grove is, but Mars John en Miss Sally, dey bin dar a time er two, en dey knows how de lan' lays.
Who acts: Co'se, you, en, er en dey, John en · What happens: say, address, not bin, whar, be, know · To what, where: Remus, Miss, Putmon, Brad place en, de lan · 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 (Co'se, you, en, er en dey), 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 | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Co'se | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Co'se | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Remus | compound |
| 7 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 addressing | punct |
| 9 | addressing | address | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 addressing | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Miss | case |
| 12 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 addressing | obl |
| 13 | Theodosia | Theodosia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Miss | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bin | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 bin | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 bin | nsubj |
| 17 | ai | ai | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 bin | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 bin | advmod |
| 19 | bin | bin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Putmon | case |
| 21 | Putmon | Putmon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 bin | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 whar | punct |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 whar | nsubj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 whar | nsubj |
| 25 | dunner | dun | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 whar | amod |
| 26 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bin | parataxis |
| 27 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Brad | compound |
| 28 | Brad | Brad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 en | compound |
| 29 | Slaughter | Slaughter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Brad | flat |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 en | compound |
| 31 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 whar | conj |
| 32 | Harmony | Harmony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 en | appos |
| 33 | Grove | Grove | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Harmony | flat |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 en | cop |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 lays | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 58 lays | cc |
| 37 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 John | compound |
| 38 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 en | compound |
| 39 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 lays | nsubj |
| 40 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 en | appos |
| 41 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Miss | flat |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 dar | punct |
| 43 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 bin | compound |
| 44 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 dar | compound |
| 45 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 en | conj |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 er | det |
| 47 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 er | compound |
| 48 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 dey | compound |
| 49 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 er | flat |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 en | punct |
| 51 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 dey | compound |
| 52 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 knows | nsubj |
| 53 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 dar | acl:relcl |
| 54 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 55 de | advmod |
| 55 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 lan | amod |
| 56 | lan | lan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 knows | obj |
| 57 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 56 lan | punct |
| 58 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Co'se | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | address | gerund | Co'se not said here | Remus | Miss | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Destination | |||
| 3 | not bin in a quote | you | Putmon | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | whar in a quote | en | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | en not said here | Brad place en | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | know in a quote | present | er en dey | de lan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lan=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | lay in a quote | present | John en and bin dar | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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