Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 90
Two un um come fus, en den de whole face er de yeath swawm'd wid um.
Who acts: Two un um · What happens: come · To what, where: en den
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 (Two un um), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 um | nummod |
| 2 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 um | compound |
| 3 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fus | fus | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 den | punct |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 den | compound |
| 8 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | de | de | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 face | amod |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 12 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 come | advmod |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 er | conj |
| 14 | yeath | yeath | ADP | _ | 18 um | case |
| 15 | swawm | swawm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 um | nsubj |
| 16 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 um | aux |
| 17 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 um | amod |
| 18 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Two un um | en den | de whole face; yeath wid um; fus property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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