Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 20
Des den, Brer Jesse, he riz up in his seat, sorter keerless like, an' went down inter his britches atter his razer, an' right den I know'd sho' nuff trubble wuz begun.
Who acts: den, britches, I, razer · What happens: riz up, go down, atter, know, sho, begin · To what, where: seat, inter, right den, trubble wuz
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 (den, britches, I, razer), 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 | Des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 den | det |
| 2 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 riz | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Brer | punct |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 den | appos |
| 5 | Jesse | Jesse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 den | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 riz | nsubj |
| 8 | riz | riz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 riz | compound:prt |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 seat | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 seat | nmod:poss |
| 12 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 riz | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sorter | punct |
| 14 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seat | conj |
| 15 | keerless | keerless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sorter | amod |
| 16 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 15 keerless | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 went | det |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 riz | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 britches | nmod:poss |
| 24 | britches | britch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 atter | nsubj |
| 25 | atter | atter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 inter | acl:relcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 razer | nmod:poss |
| 27 | razer | razer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sho | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 den | punct |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 den | det |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 den | punct |
| 31 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 den | amod |
| 32 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 razer | appos |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 know | nsubj |
| 34 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 den | acl:relcl |
| 35 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 sho | aux |
| 36 | sho | sho | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 atter | ccomp |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 wuz | punct |
| 38 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 trubble | compound |
| 39 | trubble | trubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wuz | compound |
| 40 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sho | obj |
| 41 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 wuz | acl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 riz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | riz up | present | des den | den's seat and sorter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go down | past | des den not said here | inter | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | atter | present | den's britches | inter not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | present | I | a right den not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer den=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | sho | would | den's razer | trubble wuz | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | begin | participle | trubble wuz not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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