Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 59
He went off dar fer ter fight, en he fit.
Who acts: buzin · What happens: go off, fit · To what, where: dar, 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 (buzin), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fight | compound |
| 6 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fight | compound |
| 7 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dar | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 en | punct |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dar | conj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fit | nsubj |
| 11 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 en | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | buzin | dar and en | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fit | past | buzin | en not said here | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Patient |
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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