Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 95
Dis kinder ho'p me up, kaze I done seed Ole Miss look dat away once befo' w'en de overseer struck me in de face wid a w'ip.
Who acts: I, kaze, de overseer · What happens: do, look away, strike, wi · To what, where: seed, Dis kinder ho'p, me, w'ip, de face
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, kaze, de overseer), 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 | Dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ho'p | compound |
| 2 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 ho'p | amod |
| 3 | ho'p | ho'p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | obl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ho'p | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 ho'p | compound |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 kaze | punct |
| 7 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | nsubj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 done | nsubj |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kaze | acl:relcl |
| 10 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 done | obj |
| 11 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seed | appos |
| 12 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ole | flat |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | dat | dat | ADV | _ | 13 look | advmod |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 look | advmod |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 look | advmod |
| 17 | befo | befo | ADP | _ | 19 w'en | case |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 w'en | punct |
| 19 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struck | obl |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 overseer | compound |
| 21 | overseer | overseer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struck | nsubj |
| 22 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 look | parataxis |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 struck | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 face | case |
| 25 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 face | amod |
| 26 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wid | obl |
| 27 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 struck | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 w'ip | det |
| 29 | w'ip | w'ip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wid | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | I | seed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | look away | present | kaze | Dis kinder ho'p | away, dat, once property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | strike | past | de overseer | me | befo w'en | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Instrument | |||
| 4 | wi | past | de overseer not said here | a w'ip | de face | 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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