Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 3
We er bin er havin' some mighty 'freshen' times lately."
Who acts: We · What happens: bin, freshen · To what, where: havin
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bin | nsubj |
| 2 | er | er | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bin | aux |
| 3 | bin | bin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 havin | advmod |
| 5 | havin | havin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bin | obj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 havin | punct |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 mighty | det |
| 8 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bin | conj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 freshen | punct |
| 10 | freshen | freshen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 mighty | parataxis |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 freshen | punct |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 freshen | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 10 freshen | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bin | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin | We | havin | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent havin=Theme | |||||
| 2 | freshen | infinitive | time | lately property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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