Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 21
Sis Dilsey, she seed it herse'f, an' she tuck'n let off wunner dem hallyluyah hollers, an' den I disremember w'at come ter pass.
Who acts: razer, wunner, I · What happens: herse'f, let off, holler, disremember, come, pass · To what, where: w'at
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 (razer, wunner, 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 | Sis | Sis | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Dilsey | Dilsey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sis | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 herse'f | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 herse'f | nsubj |
| 5 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 herse'f | compound |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 herse'f | nsubj |
| 7 | herse'f | herse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sis | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sis | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 let | det |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 let | nsubj |
| 12 | tuck'n | tuck'n | CCONJ | _ | 13 let | cc |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Sis | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 let | compound:prt |
| 15 | wunner | wunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hollers | nsubj |
| 16 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hollers | compound |
| 17 | hallyluyah | hallyluyah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hollers | compound |
| 18 | hollers | holler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 let | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 den | punct |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 den | det |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 den | punct |
| 22 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hollers | appos |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 disremember | nsubj |
| 24 | disremember | disremember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 den | acl:relcl |
| 25 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 disremember | obj |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 let | xcomp |
| 27 | ter | ter | ADV | _ | 28 pass | advmod |
| 28 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 come | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | herse'f | razer | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | let off | infinitive | razer | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | holler speech: other | wunner | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | disremember | present | I | w'at | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | present | razer not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | pass | infinitive | razer not said here | ter property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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