Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 12
W'en I went ter dat chu'ch, I went des ez umbill ez de nex' one.
Who acts: W'en, I, ez umbill · What happens: go, dat, nex · To what, where: chu'ch, one
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'en, I, ez umbill), 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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 W'en | flat |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ter | ter | ADV | _ | 5 dat | advmod |
| 5 | dat | dat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | xcomp |
| 6 | chu'ch | chu'ch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dat | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 umbill | det |
| 11 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 umbill | amod |
| 12 | umbill | umbill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nex | nsubj |
| 13 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nex | amod |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 nex | compound |
| 15 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 nex | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | W'en | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | dat | participle | W'en not said here | chu'ch | ter property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | past | I | one | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | nex | des ez umbill | 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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