Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 14
Hit went on dis way twel bimeby, one day, de fus news I know'd der was a row got up in de amen cornder.
Who acts: you, I, der, row · What happens: hit, go, know, be, get up · To what, where: fus news, way twel, row, de amen cornder
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 (you, I, der, row), 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 | Hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hit | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 twel | case |
| 4 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 way | compound |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 twel | compound |
| 6 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | bimeby | bimeby | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 day | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 day | nummod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hit | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 news | punct |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 news | advmod |
| 13 | fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 news | amod |
| 14 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hit | obl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 news | acl:relcl |
| 17 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 row | aux |
| 18 | der | der | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 row | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 row | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 row | det |
| 21 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 got | nsubj |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hit | parataxis |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 got | compound:prt |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 cornder | case |
| 25 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 cornder | compound |
| 26 | amen | amen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cornder | compound |
| 27 | cornder | cornder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 got | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | imperative | you not said here | fus news | day | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | way twel | bimeby property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on twel=Location | ||||
| 3 | know | present | I | fus news not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | would | der | a row | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get up | past | a row | de amen cornder | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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