Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 70
Ef dey didn't earn der vittles dat season den I ain't name Remus.
Who acts: Ef dey, der, I · What happens: not earn, vittle, not name · To what, where: dat season den, Remus
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 (Ef dey, der, I), 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 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dey | compound |
| 2 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 earn | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 earn | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 earn | advmod |
| 5 | earn | earn | VERB | _ | root | root |
| 6 | der | der | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vittles | nsubj |
| 7 | vittles | vittle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 earn | ccomp |
| 8 | dat | dat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 den | amod |
| 9 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 den | compound |
| 10 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vittles | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 name | nsubj |
| 12 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 name | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 name | advmod |
| 14 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 den | acl:relcl |
| 15 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 name | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 earn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not earn | past · do-support | Ef dey | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | vittle | present | der | dat season den | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not name | present | I | Remus | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remus=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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