Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 63
Hit went on dis way year in en year out, en dem wuz lonesome times, sho's you bawn, Miss Doshy--lonesome times, sho.
Who acts: you · What happens: hit, go, bawn · To what, where: dis way
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 (you), 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 | Hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hit | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 4 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 way | compound |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hit | obl |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hit | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 year | case |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 year | compound |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hit | obl |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 1 Hit | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 times | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dem | compound |
| 13 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wuz | compound |
| 14 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 times | compound |
| 15 | lonesome | lonesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 times | amod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hit | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bawn | punct |
| 18 | sho | sho | NOUN | _ | 21 bawn | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 sho | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 bawn | nsubj |
| 21 | bawn | bawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 times | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Miss | punct |
| 23 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 bawn | appos |
| 24 | Doshy | Doshy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Miss | flat |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 times | punct |
| 26 | lonesome | lonesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 times | amod |
| 27 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 times | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sho | punct |
| 29 | sho | sho | NOUN | _ | 16 times | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | imperative | you not said here | dis way | time; year | out property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | go | past | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | bawn | you | 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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