Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 56
He got a overseer fer ter look atter de place, en he went en jined de army.
Who acts: en, fer ter · What happens: get, look, go, jin · To what, where: overseer, atter de place, en jined de army
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, fer ter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 overseer | det |
| 4 | overseer | overseer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 ter | amod |
| 6 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 look | nsubj |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 8 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | compound |
| 9 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 en | acl:relcl |
| 15 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 army | amod |
| 16 | jined | jin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 army | amod |
| 17 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 army | compound |
| 18 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | en | a overseer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer overseer=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | present | fer ter | atter de place and en | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | go | past | en | en jined de army | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=Theme | ||||
| 4 | jin | participle | 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.
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