Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 34
"I mout drap in, Brer Rastus, an' den ag'in I moutn't, but w'en you duz see me santer in de do', wid my specs on, you k'n des say to de congergashun, sorter familious like, 'Yer come ole man Remus wid his hoss-pistol, an' ef dar's much uv a skuffle 'roun' yer dis evenin' you er gwineter year fum 'im.'
Who acts: fer ter, you, w'en, des, Yer, ole man · What happens: drap, not mout, duz, see, wid, k'n · To what, where: Brer, den ag'in, w'en, fer ter, specs, congergashun · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fer ter, you, w'en, des), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 drap | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 drap | nsubj |
| 3 | mout | mout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 I | flat |
| 4 | drap | drap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 drap | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Brer | punct |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 drap | obl |
| 8 | Rastus | Rastus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ag'in | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ag'in | det |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 ag'in | punct |
| 12 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ag'in | compound |
| 13 | ag'in | ag'in | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | appos |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 mout | nsubj |
| 15 | mout | mout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ag'in | acl:relcl |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 mout | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 19 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | nsubj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 duz | nsubj |
| 21 | duz | duz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 w'en | acl:relcl |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 drap | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | santer | santer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 de | case |
| 26 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 santer | nmod |
| 27 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 ', | aux |
| 28 | ', | ', | X | _ | 29 wid | punct |
| 29 | wid | wid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 see | conj |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 specs | nmod:poss |
| 31 | specs | spec | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 wid | obj |
| 32 | on | on | ADV | _ | 29 wid | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 k'n | punct |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 k'n | nsubj |
| 35 | k'n | k'n | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drap | conj |
| 36 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 say | nsubj |
| 37 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 k'n | ccomp |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 de | mark |
| 39 | de | de | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 say | xcomp |
| 40 | congergashun | congergashun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 de | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 sorter | punct |
| 42 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 congergashun | conj |
| 43 | familious | familious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 congergashun | conj |
| 44 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 39 de | discourse |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 come | punct |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 48 come | punct |
| 47 | Yer | Yer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 come | nsubj |
| 48 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 de | conj |
| 49 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 man | amod |
| 50 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 wid | nsubj |
| 51 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 wid | nsubj |
| 52 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 come | ccomp |
| 53 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 pistol | nmod:poss |
| 54 | hoss | hoss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 pistol | compound |
| 55 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 hoss | punct |
| 56 | pistol | pistol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 wid | obj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 uv | punct |
| 58 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 64 uv | det |
| 59 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 64 uv | punct |
| 60 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 dar | compound |
| 61 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 uv | nmod:poss |
| 62 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 61 dar | case |
| 63 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 64 uv | amod |
| 64 | uv | ultra-violet | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 56 pistol | conj |
| 65 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 68 roun | det |
| 66 | skuffle | skuffle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 roun | compound |
| 67 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 68 roun | punct |
| 68 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 uv | conj |
| 69 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 68 roun | punct |
| 70 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 72 evenin | nmod:poss |
| 71 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 72 evenin | compound |
| 72 | evenin | evenin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 75 er | nsubj |
| 73 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 72 evenin | punct |
| 74 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 75 er | nsubj |
| 75 | er | er | X | _ | 68 roun | appos |
| 76 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 77 year | compound |
| 77 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 78 fum | compound |
| 78 | fum | fum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 80 im | nmod:poss |
| 79 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 78 fum | case |
| 80 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 75 er | flat |
| 81 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drap | punct |
| 82 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 drap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drap in a quote | present | fer ter = ter | Brer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not mout in a quote | present | fer ter = ter | a den ag'in not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | duz in a quote | present | you | w'en not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | w'en | fer ter = ter | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wid in a quote | infinitive | w'en not said here | my specs | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | k'n in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | des | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | de in a quote | to-infinitive | des not said here | congergashun and sorter | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | come in a quote | infinitive | Yer | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | wi in a quote | past | ole man | Remus's hoss pistol and ef dar's much uv and a skuffle roun | tree rules |
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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