Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 66
"'Remus, I ain't got nobody fer ter look arter de place but you,' sez she, en den I up'n say, sez I:
Who acts: I, nobody fer ter, Remus · What happens: not get, look, say, sez · To what, where: nobody fer ter, arter de place, dis, en den · 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 (I, nobody fer ter, Remus), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Remus | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Remus | punct |
| 3 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sez | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 6 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 got | advmod |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 Remus | parataxis |
| 9 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 ter | compound |
| 10 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ter | compound |
| 11 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obj |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 got | xcomp |
| 13 | arter | arter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 place | compound |
| 14 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obj |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 you | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 got | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Remus | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Remus | punct |
| 20 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sez | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 den | punct |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 den | compound |
| 24 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 she | appos |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 say | nsubj |
| 26 | up'n | up'n | ADV | _ | 27 say | advmod |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 den | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sez | punct |
| 29 | sez | sez | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 say | ccomp |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 sez | nsubj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | present · passive | I | nobody fer ter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | nobody fer ter not said here | arter de place | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Remus | dis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | I | en den not said here | up'n property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | sez in a quote | present | I | 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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