Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 96
I sot down by de fier wid my axe tween my knees.
Who acts: I, sot · What happens: sot down, wi · To what, where: axe
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, sot), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 sot | nsubj |
| 2 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wid | nsubj |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sot | compound:prt |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 fier | case |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 fier | compound |
| 6 | fier | fier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wid | obl |
| 7 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 axe | nmod:poss |
| 9 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wid | obj |
| 10 | tween | tween | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 axe | flat |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 knees | nmod:poss |
| 12 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wid | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sot down | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | wi | past | sot | my axe | by de fier | 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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