Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 18
Bofe un um had kin 'mong de mo'ners, an' ef you ever see skufflin' an' scramblin' hit wuz den an' dar.
Who acts: Bofe un um, you, scramblin · What happens: have, see, hit · To what, where: kin, ef, wuz den
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 (Bofe un um, you, scramblin), 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 | Bofe | Bofe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 um | compound |
| 2 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 um | compound |
| 3 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 mo'ners | punct |
| 7 | mong | mong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mo'ners | compound |
| 8 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 mong | flat:foreign |
| 9 | mo'ners | mo'ner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kin | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ef | det |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 ef | punct |
| 13 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 see | advmod |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mo'ners | acl:relcl |
| 17 | skufflin | skufflin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 scramblin | punct |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 scramblin | det |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 scramblin | punct |
| 21 | scramblin | scramblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 skufflin | appos |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 scramblin | punct |
| 23 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 scramblin | acl |
| 24 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 den | compound |
| 25 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hit | obj |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 dar | det |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 dar | punct |
| 28 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hit | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Bofe un um | kin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | present | you | a ef | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skufflin=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | hit | participle | a scramblin not said here | wuz den | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent den=Patient dar=Result |
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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