Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 55
Ole Miss en Miss Sally, dey tuck on so he didn't git off de fus' year, but bimeby news come down dat times wuz gittin' putty hot, en Mars Jeems he got up, he did, en say he gotter go, en go he did.
Who acts: en, bimeby news, dat times, Mars, gittin putty · What happens: not git off, come down, wuz, get up, do, say · To what, where: dey tuck, gittin putty, en · 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 (en, bimeby news, dat times, 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 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 en | amod |
| 2 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 en | compound |
| 3 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Miss | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Miss | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tuck | punct |
| 7 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tuck | compound |
| 8 | tuck | tuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Miss | appos |
| 9 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 14 git | mark |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 git | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 git | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 git | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 git | advmod |
| 14 | git | git | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tuck | acl:relcl |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 git | compound:prt |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 fus | compound |
| 17 | fus | fus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 year | compound |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 fus | punct |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 git | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 come | cc |
| 22 | bimeby | bimeby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 news | compound |
| 23 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | nsubj |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Miss | conj |
| 25 | down | down | ADV | _ | 24 come | advmod |
| 26 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 times | compound |
| 27 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 wuz | nsubj |
| 28 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | parataxis |
| 29 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 putty | compound |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 gittin | punct |
| 31 | putty | putty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wuz | obj |
| 32 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 putty | amod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 en | punct |
| 34 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 putty | conj |
| 35 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 got | nsubj |
| 36 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Mars | flat |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 got | nsubj |
| 38 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 en | acl:relcl |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 got | compound:prt |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 did | punct |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 did | nsubj |
| 42 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 got | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 en | punct |
| 44 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 say | obl |
| 45 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 putty | acl:relcl |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 go | nsubj |
| 47 | gotter | gotter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 go | nsubj |
| 48 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 say | ccomp |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 en | punct |
| 50 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 go | obl |
| 51 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 go | conj |
| 52 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 did | nsubj |
| 53 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 go | ccomp |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Miss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not git off | past · do-support | en | dey tuck not said here | year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come down | present | bimeby news | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wuz | present | dat times | gittin putty and en | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get up | past | Mars | en not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | do | past | Mars | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | gittin putty and en not said here | en | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | go | infinitive | en | en | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | go | infinitive | en not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | do | past | en | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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