Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 64
Hit got hotter en hotter in de war, en lonesomer en mo' lonesomer at home, en bimeby 'long come de conscrip' man, en he des everlas'nly scoop up Mars Jeems's overseer.
Who acts: Hit, conscrip man, war · What happens: get, come, scoop up · To what, where: war, overseer
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 (Hit, conscrip man, war), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:1855): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hit | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 got | xcomp |
| 4 | en | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hotter | cc |
| 5 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 hotter | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 war | case |
| 7 | de | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 war | det |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lonesomer | punct |
| 10 | en | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lonesomer | cc |
| 11 | lonesomer | lonesome | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 hotter | conj |
| 12 | en | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lonesomer | cc |
| 13 | mo | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 lonesomer | advmod |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 mo | punct |
| 15 | lonesomer | lonesome | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 lonesomer | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lonesomer | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 19 | en | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 20 | bimeby | bimeby | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 long | punct |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 come | advmod |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 24 | de | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 25 | conscrip | conscrip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 man | compound |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 conscrip | punct |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 scoop | punct |
| 29 | en | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 scoop | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 scoop | nsubj |
| 31 | des | des | ADV | _ | 33 scoop | advmod |
| 32 | everlas'nly | everlas'nly | ADV | _ | 33 scoop | advmod |
| 33 | scoop | scoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 scoop | compound:prt |
| 35 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 overseer | nmod:poss |
| 36 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Mars | flat |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 Mars | case |
| 38 | overseer | overseer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 scoop | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Hit = it | the war | hot property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | come | past | the conscrip man | bimeby, long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scoop up | past | war | Mars's overseer | des, everlas'nly property | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent overseer=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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