Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 71
But dey wuz tuk keer un.
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 un | cc |
| 2 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | compound |
| 3 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tuk | compound |
| 4 | tuk | tuk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 un | compound |
| 5 | keer | keer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 un | compound |
| 6 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 un | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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