Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 50
When de war come long he wuz livin' dere longer Ole Miss en Miss Sally.
Who acts: de war, war, long wuz · What happens: come, wuz, livin · To what, where: Ole Miss en
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 (de war, war, long wuz), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 come | advmod |
| 2 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 war | compound |
| 3 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wuz | amod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wuz | nsubj |
| 7 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obj |
| 8 | livin | livin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 wuz | acl |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 en | punct |
| 10 | dere | dere | ADV | _ | 11 longer | advmod |
| 11 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 Ole | advmod |
| 12 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 en | amod |
| 13 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 en | compound |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 livin | obj |
| 15 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sally | compound |
| 16 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 en | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | de war | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wuz | war | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | livin | gerund | long wuz not said here | Ole Miss en | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/50/