Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 88
De grinestone wuz in sight er de gate en close ter de big 'ouse, en dar I tuck my stan'.
Who acts: I · What happens: tuck · To what, where: stan
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 (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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | compound |
| 2 | grinestone | grinestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | compound |
| 3 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 er | case |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 er | compound |
| 6 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | nmod |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 en | compound |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 en | compound |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | conj |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 en | amod |
| 11 | ter | ter | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 close | conj |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 ter | flat:foreign |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ter | amod |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 ouse | punct |
| 15 | ouse | ouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 big | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dar | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dar | compound |
| 18 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ouse | conj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 tuck | nsubj |
| 20 | tuck | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ouse | acl:relcl |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 stan | nmod:poss |
| 22 | stan | stan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tuck | obj |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 stan | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck | present | I | my stan | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stan=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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