Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 82
One time he tu'n roun' en look like he wanter say sump'n', but he des waf' his han'--so--en gallop on.
Who acts: en · What happens: look, say, de · To what, where: sump'n, waf han · 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 (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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 time | nummod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roun | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 roun | nsubj |
| 4 | tu'n | tu'n | X | _ | 5 roun | compound |
| 5 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | nsubj |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 roun | parataxis |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 wanter | case |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wanter | nsubj |
| 11 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | obl |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 look | conj |
| 13 | sump'n | sump'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | obj |
| 14 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 13 sump'n | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 des | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 des | nsubj |
| 17 | des | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 look | conj |
| 18 | waf | waf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 han | compound |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 waf | punct |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 han | nmod:poss |
| 21 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 des | obj |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 han | punct |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 gallop | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 gallop | advmod |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 gallop | punct |
| 26 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gallop | compound |
| 27 | gallop | gallop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roun | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 gallop | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 roun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | infinitive | en | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | en not said here | sump'n | like wanter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sump'n=Topic | |||
| 3 | de | present | en | en's waf han | 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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