Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 54
But all dis time de fuss wuz gwine on, en Mars Jeems, he wuz des eatchin' fer ter put in.
Who acts: en · What happens: wuz, put in · To what, where: eatchin fer ter
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 (en), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 gwine | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 time | det |
| 3 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gwine | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 time | flat:foreign |
| 6 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gwine | compound |
| 7 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gwine | compound |
| 8 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 gwine | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Mars | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gwine | appos |
| 13 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mars | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wuz | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wuz | nsubj |
| 16 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Mars | appos |
| 17 | des | des | X | _ | 18 eatchin | compound |
| 18 | eatchin | eatchin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ter | compound |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 eatchin | punct |
| 20 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 ter | amod |
| 21 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wuz | nmod |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ter | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 put | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gwine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz | en | eatchin fer ter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | put in | participle | eatchin fer ter not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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