Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 97
Dar we sot w'iles de Yankees ransack de place.
Who acts: Dar sot w'iles · What happens: ransack · To what, where: de place
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 (Dar sot w'iles), 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 | Dar | Dar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 w'iles | compound |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Dar | flat |
| 3 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 w'iles | compound |
| 4 | w'iles | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ransack | nsubj |
| 5 | de | de | ADP | _ | 6 Yankees | case |
| 6 | Yankees | yankee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 w'iles | nmod |
| 7 | ransack | ransack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 place | amod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ransack | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ransack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ransack | present | Dar sot w'iles de Yankees | de place | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent place=Location |
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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