Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 49
Well, den, it 'uz right long in dere whar Mars Jeems lived, en whar he live now.
Who acts: Mars · What happens: live · To what, where: dere whar, en whar
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 (Mars), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 3 den | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 uz | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 den | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 uz | nsubj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 uz | punct |
| 7 | uz | uz | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | right | right | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 uz | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 whar | case |
| 11 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 whar | compound |
| 12 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 uz | nmod |
| 13 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mars | flat |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 whar | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 whar | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 whar | compound |
| 18 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 uz | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 live | nsubj |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 18 whar | acl:relcl |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 live | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 uz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Mars | dere whar not said here | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme whar=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | present | Mars | en whar not said here | now | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme whar=Location |
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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