Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 19
Brer Jeems Henry, he mounted Brer Plato an' rid 'im over de railin', an' den de preacher he start down fum de pulpit, an' des ez he wuz skippin' onter de platform a hym'-book kotch 'im in de bur er de year, an I be bless ef it didn't soun' like a bung-shell'd busted.
Who acts: Brer, fum, hym, I · What happens: mount, start down, platform, kotch, be, not soun · To what, where: Brer Plato, de railin, bless ef
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 (Brer, fum, hym, I), 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brer | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mounted | nsubj |
| 6 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Plato | compound |
| 8 | Plato | Plato | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mounted | obj |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 railin | det |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 rid | punct |
| 11 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 railin | parataxis |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 rid | punct |
| 13 | im | im | ADV | _ | 16 railin | advmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 railin | case |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 railin | compound |
| 16 | railin | railin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mounted | obj |
| 17 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 20 den | punct |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 den | det |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 den | punct |
| 20 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 railin | conj |
| 21 | de | de | ADP | _ | 22 preacher | case |
| 22 | preacher | preacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 start | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 start | nsubj |
| 24 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 railin | acl |
| 25 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 start | compound:prt |
| 26 | fum | fum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 platform | nsubj |
| 27 | de | de | ADP | _ | 28 pulpit | case |
| 28 | pulpit | pulpit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fum | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 des | punct |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 des | det |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 des | punct |
| 32 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 platform | nsubj |
| 33 | ez | ez | ADP | _ | 36 skippin | case |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 skippin | nsubj |
| 35 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 skippin | compound |
| 36 | skippin | skippin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 platform | compound |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 onter | punct |
| 38 | onter | onter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 platform | compound |
| 39 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 38 onter | flat:foreign |
| 40 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 start | parataxis |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 hym | det |
| 42 | hym | hym | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 kotch | nsubj |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 hym | punct |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 book | punct |
| 45 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 kotch | compound |
| 46 | kotch | kotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 platform | parataxis |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 48 im | punct |
| 48 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 kotch | conj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 er | case |
| 50 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 er | amod |
| 51 | bur | bur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 er | compound |
| 52 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 im | nmod |
| 53 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 54 year | compound |
| 54 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 er | nmod:unmarked |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 ef | punct |
| 56 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 60 ef | det |
| 57 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 60 ef | nsubj |
| 58 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 60 ef | cop |
| 59 | bless | bless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 ef | amod |
| 60 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 kotch | conj |
| 61 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 64 soun | nsubj |
| 62 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 64 soun | aux |
| 63 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 64 soun | advmod |
| 64 | soun | soun | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 60 ef | acl:relcl |
| 65 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 72 busted | punct |
| 66 | like | like | ADP | _ | 70 shell | case |
| 67 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 70 shell | det |
| 68 | bung | bung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 shell | compound |
| 69 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 68 bung | punct |
| 70 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 72 busted | obl |
| 71 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 72 busted | punct |
| 72 | busted | bust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 64 soun | advcl |
| 73 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | Brer | Brer Plato | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent plato=Theme railin=Destination | ||||
| 2 | start down | infinitive | Brer | a de railin and a den not said here | de preacher | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent railin=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | platform | fum de pulpit | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | kotch | a hym | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is a | infinitive | I | a bless ef | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not soun | past · do-support | hym | a bless ef not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | bust | participle | hym not said here | like a bung shell | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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