Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 79
"'Sence I wuz a baby,' sezee.
Who acts: en · What happens: wuz · To what, where: Sence
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 (en), 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 | _ | 5 wuz | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sence | punct |
| 3 | Sence | sence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wuz | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wuz | nsubj |
| 5 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 baby | det |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sezee | nmod:poss |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ' | punct |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 baby | case |
| 10 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wuz | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz in a quote | present | en | Sence | 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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