Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 76
De Yankees, dey er done got ter Madison en Mounticellar, en 'twon't be many days 'fo' dey er down yer. '
Who acts: De Yankees, many days · What happens: do, get, not be · To what, where: dey, ter Madison en
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 (De Yankees, many days), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Yankees | compound |
| 2 | Yankees | yankee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dey | punct |
| 4 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Yankees | conj |
| 5 | er | er | ADV | _ | 6 done | advmod |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dey | acl |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ter | ter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 en | amod |
| 9 | Madison | Madison | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 en | compound |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 11 | Mounticellar | Mounticellar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 en | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 en | punct |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 en | conj |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 two | punct |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 en | appos |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 er | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 er | cop |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 days | amod |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 er | nsubj |
| 20 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 19 days | case |
| 21 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 24 er | case |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 er | punct |
| 23 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 er | compound |
| 24 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 two | nmod |
| 25 | down | down | ADV | _ | 26 yer | advmod |
| 26 | yer | y | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 two | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | dey not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | past | De Yankees and dey | ter Madison en and en | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not is | infinitive | many days | for dey er | 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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