Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 77
Tain't likely dey'll pester mother ner sister; but, daddy, ef de wus come ter de wus, I speck you ter take keer un um,' sezee.
Who acts: likely dey, daddy wus, I · What happens: not pester, come, speck, take · To what, where: ner sister, ter wus, you, keer un um
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 (likely dey, daddy wus, 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 | Tai | Tai | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 pester | dep |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 pester | advmod |
| 3 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dey | amod |
| 4 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pester | nsubj |
| 5 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 pester | aux |
| 6 | pester | pester | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ner | compound |
| 8 | ner | ner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sister | compound |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pester | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 come | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 daddy | punct |
| 13 | daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wus | compound |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ef | punct |
| 15 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 daddy | conj |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 ef | flat:foreign |
| 17 | wus | wu | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pester | conj |
| 19 | ter | ter | X | _ | 21 wus | compound |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 ter | flat:foreign |
| 21 | wus | wus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 speck | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 speck | nsubj |
| 24 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 speck | obj |
| 26 | ter | ter | PART | _ | 27 take | mark |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 speck | advcl |
| 28 | keer | keer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 um | compound |
| 29 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 um | compound |
| 30 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 take | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sezee | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 sezee | punct |
| 33 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 um | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pester | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pester | future | likely dey | ner sister | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sister=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | come | present | daddy wus | ter wus | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wus=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speck | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | I not said here | keer un um and sezee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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