Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 68
"I wuz ole den, Miss Doshy--let lone w'at I is now; en you better b'leeve I bossed dem han's.
Who acts: en · What happens: wuz, let, be, b'leeve, boss · To what, where: ole den, lone w'at, dem han
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), 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 wuz | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wuz | nsubj |
| 3 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 den | amod |
| 5 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Miss | punct |
| 7 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 den | nmod |
| 8 | Doshy | Doshy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Miss | flat |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 wuz | conj |
| 11 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 w'at | amod |
| 12 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 now | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 now | cop |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 b'leeve | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 b'leeve | nsubj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 b'leeve | nsubj |
| 19 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 b'leeve | amod |
| 20 | b'leeve | b'leeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | obl |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 bossed | nsubj |
| 22 | bossed | boss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 b'leeve | acl:relcl |
| 23 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 han | compound |
| 24 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bossed | obj |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 han | case |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz in a quote | present | en | ole den Miss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | en not said here | lone w'at | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | en | lone w'at not said here | now property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | b'leeve in a quote | en | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | boss in a quote | past | en | dem han | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Beneficiary |
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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