Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 11
I done bin fool wid dat mule befo', an' I tuck'n tole Jim dat he better not git tangle up wid 'er; but Jim, he up'n 'low dat he wuz a hoss- doctor, an' wid dat he ax me fer a chaw terbacker, en den he got de bridle, en tuck'n kotch de mule en got on her--Well," continued Uncle Remus, looking uneasily around, "I speck you better go git yo' ticket.
Who acts: I, Dat, Jim, wid dat, chaw terbacker, de bridle · What happens: do, bin, tole, tangle up, up'n, wuz · To what, where: fool, wid er, hoss doctor, me, en, Uncle Remus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Dat, Jim, wid dat), 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 done | nsubj |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bin | bin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 done | xcomp |
| 4 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bin | obj |
| 5 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 befo | amod |
| 6 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mule | compound |
| 7 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 befo | compound |
| 8 | befo | befo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fool | nmod |
| 9 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 16 dat | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dat | det |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 tole | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tole | nsubj |
| 13 | tuck'n | tuck'n | X | _ | 14 tole | compound |
| 14 | tole | tole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dat | compound |
| 15 | Jim | Jim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 dat | compound |
| 16 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 befo | appos |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tangle | nsubj |
| 18 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 tangle | advmod |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 git | advmod |
| 20 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tangle | nsubj |
| 21 | tangle | tangle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dat | acl:relcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 tangle | compound:prt |
| 23 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 er | compound |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 wid | punct |
| 25 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tangle | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 wuz | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 wuz | cc |
| 28 | Jim | Jim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 wuz | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 up'n | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 up'n | nsubj |
| 31 | up'n | up'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Jim | appos |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 up'n | punct |
| 33 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 dat | amod |
| 34 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Jim | list |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 wuz | nsubj |
| 36 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 done | parataxis |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 doctor | det |
| 38 | hoss | hoss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 doctor | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 hoss | punct |
| 40 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wuz | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 ax | punct |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 dat | det |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 dat | punct |
| 44 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 dat | amod |
| 45 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 ax | nsubj |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 ax | nsubj |
| 47 | ax | ax | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 wuz | conj |
| 48 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 ax | obj |
| 49 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 47 ax | xcomp |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 terbacker | det |
| 51 | chaw | chaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 terbacker | compound |
| 52 | terbacker | terbacker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 got | nsubj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 den | punct |
| 54 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 den | compound |
| 55 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 terbacker | conj |
| 56 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 got | nsubj |
| 57 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 ax | parataxis |
| 58 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 bridle | amod |
| 59 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 got | nsubj |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 en | punct |
| 61 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 bridle | conj |
| 62 | tuck'n | tuck'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 kotch | compound |
| 63 | kotch | kotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 en | compound |
| 64 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 mule | compound |
| 65 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 en | compound |
| 66 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 got | nsubj |
| 67 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 got | parataxis |
| 68 | on | on | ADP | _ | 69 her | case |
| 69 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 67 got | obj |
| 70 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 74 continued | punct |
| 71 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 74 continued | discourse |
| 72 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 71 Well | punct |
| 73 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 71 Well | punct |
| 74 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 67 got | parataxis |
| 75 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 76 Remus | compound |
| 76 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 74 continued | obj |
| 77 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 78 looking | punct |
| 78 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 74 continued | advcl |
| 79 | uneasily | uneasily | ADV | _ | 80 around | advmod |
| 80 | around | around | ADV | _ | 78 looking | advmod |
| 81 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 84 speck | punct |
| 82 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 84 speck | punct |
| 83 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 84 speck | nsubj |
| 84 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 78 looking | advcl |
| 85 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 84 speck | obj |
| 86 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 84 speck | advmod |
| 87 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 84 speck | xcomp |
| 88 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 89 yo | compound |
| 89 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 91 ticket | compound |
| 90 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 89 yo | punct |
| 91 | ticket | ticket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 87 go | obj |
| 92 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bin | infinitive | I not said here | fool wid mule befo | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fool=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tole | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | tangle up | infinitive | Dat | wid er | well property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | up'n | Dat | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | wuz | present | Jim | a hoss doctor | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | ax | infinitive | a wid dat | me | f property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | get | past | a chaw terbacker and en den | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | get | past | de bridle and en | en | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | continue in a quote | past | Uncle Remus | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent remus=Theme | |||||
| 11 | look in a quote | gerund | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 12 | speck | present | I | you | well property | tree rules | |||
| 13 | go | infinitive | I not said here | yo ticket | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ticket=Theme |
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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