Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 98
Miss Sally, dar, she got sorter restless, but Ole Miss didn't skasely bat 'er eyes.
Who acts: Miss, Ole Miss · What happens: get, do · To what, where: bat
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 (Miss, Ole Miss), 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 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 2 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Miss | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dar | punct |
| 4 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Miss | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | sorter | sorter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 restless | amod |
| 9 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 got | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 did | cc |
| 12 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Miss | amod |
| 13 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | conj |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 bat | advmod |
| 16 | skasely | skasely | ADV | _ | 17 bat | advmod |
| 17 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 did | obj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 bat | punct |
| 19 | er | e | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 eyes | amod |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bat | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Miss | restless property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Ole Miss | bat and er eyes | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Eventuality |
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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