Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 73
"Bimeby one day, Ole Miss, she call me up en say de Yankees done gone en tuck Atlanty--dish yer ve'y town; den present'y I year dey wuz a marchin' on down todes Putmon, en, lo en behol's! one day, de fus news I know'd, Mars Jeems he rid up wid a whole gang er men.
Who acts: dey, Bimeby, de Yankees, den present'y, en, Putmon · What happens: call up, say, do, dey, wuz, know · To what, where: en, de Yankees, gone en tuck, marchin, todes, fus news · 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 (dey, Bimeby, de Yankees, den present'y), 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 | _ | 2 Bimeby | punct |
| 2 | Bimeby | Bimeby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 say | nsubj |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bimeby | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Miss | punct |
| 6 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Miss | amod |
| 7 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bimeby | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 call | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 call | nsubj |
| 10 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Bimeby | parataxis |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 call | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 call | compound:prt |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 call | xcomp |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Yankees | amod |
| 16 | Yankees | yankee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 say | obj |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Yankees | acl |
| 18 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tuck | amod |
| 19 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tuck | amod |
| 20 | tuck | tuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 done | obj |
| 21 | Atlanty | Atlanty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 tuck | appos |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 dish | punct |
| 23 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tuck | conj |
| 24 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 town | amod |
| 25 | ve'y | ve'y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 town | compound |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dish | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 dey | punct |
| 28 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 present'y | compound |
| 29 | present'y | present'y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dey | nsubj |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 dey | nsubj |
| 31 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dey | compound |
| 32 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wuz | obl |
| 33 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | parataxis |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 marchin | det |
| 35 | marchin | marchin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wuz | obj |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 marchin | punct |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 todes | case |
| 38 | down | down | ADP | _ | 37 on | compound:prt |
| 39 | todes | tode | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 wuz | obl |
| 40 | Putmon | Putmon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 64 wid | nsubj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 en | punct |
| 42 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Putmon | appos |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 behol | punct |
| 44 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 46 behol | discourse |
| 45 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 behol | compound |
| 46 | behol | behol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Putmon | list |
| 47 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 46 behol | case |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 Putmon | punct |
| 49 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 day | nummod |
| 50 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Putmon | obl:unmarked |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 news | punct |
| 52 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 54 news | advmod |
| 53 | fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 news | amod |
| 54 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Putmon | appos |
| 55 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 56 know | nsubj |
| 56 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 news | acl:relcl |
| 57 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 56 know | punct |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 Mars | punct |
| 59 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Putmon | conj |
| 60 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Putmon | flat |
| 61 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 rid | nsubj |
| 62 | rid | rid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 Putmon | acl:relcl |
| 63 | up | up | ADP | _ | 62 rid | compound:prt |
| 64 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 todes | acl:relcl |
| 65 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 69 men | det |
| 66 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 69 men | amod |
| 67 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 er | compound |
| 68 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 men | compound |
| 69 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 64 wid | obj |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call up speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | dey | en | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Bimeby and Ole Miss | de Yankees | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yankee=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | participle | de Yankees not said here | gone en tuck and dish and yer ve'y town | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tuck=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | dey in a quote | den present'y | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | wuz in a quote | present | a marchin | todes | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | know in a quote | present | en | fus news not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | rid up in a quote | past | Putmon | Putmon and Mars not said here | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent putmon=Source | ||||
| 8 | wi in a quote | past | Putmon and Mars | a whole er men | 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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