Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 92
She done had de sidebo'd move in dar, en I wish I may drap ef 'twuzn't fa'rly blazin' wid silver--silver cups en silver sassers, silver plates en silver dishes, silver mugs en silver pitchers.
Who acts: um, de sidebo, I, silver · What happens: be, have, move, wish, drap, not blazin · To what, where: um, en, ef, dar, wid silver, silver pitchers
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 (um, de sidebo, I, silver), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 She | cop |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 sidebo | compound |
| 5 | sidebo | sidebo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 move | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 move | aux |
| 7 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 dar | case |
| 9 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drap | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dar | conj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 en | acl:relcl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 drap | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 drap | aux |
| 16 | drap | drap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 move | conj |
| 17 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drap | obj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 ef | punct |
| 19 | twuz | twuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ef | conj |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 blazin | advmod |
| 21 | fa'rly | fa'rly | ADV | _ | 22 blazin | advmod |
| 22 | blazin | blazin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 drap | advcl |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 silver | punct |
| 24 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 silver | amod |
| 25 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blazin | obj |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 cups | punct |
| 27 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cups | compound |
| 28 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 silver | appos |
| 29 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sassers | amod |
| 30 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sassers | compound |
| 31 | sassers | sasser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 cups | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 plates | punct |
| 33 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 plates | compound |
| 34 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 sassers | conj |
| 35 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dishes | compound |
| 36 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dishes | compound |
| 37 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 sassers | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 mugs | punct |
| 39 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 mugs | nsubj |
| 40 | mugs | mug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 sassers | conj |
| 41 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 silver | compound |
| 42 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 pitchers | compound |
| 43 | pitchers | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 mugs | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | um | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | um | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | move | would | de sidebo | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wish | present | I | en not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot en=Theme | ||||
| 5 | drap | may | I | ef and twuz | dar and en | tree rules | |||
| 6 | not blazin | infinitive | I not said here | wid silver | fa'rly property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | mug | present | silver | silver pitchers | 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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