Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 4
"Hit's bin a long time sence I bin down dar, Brer Rastus, an' hit'll be longer.
Who acts: deacon · What happens: bin down, hit, be · To what, where: dar
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 (deacon), 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 | _ | 8 sence | punct |
| 2 | Hit | Hit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Hit | case |
| 4 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sence | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sence | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sence | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sence | compound |
| 8 | sence | sence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bin | nsubj |
| 10 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sence | acl:relcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 bin | compound:prt |
| 12 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bin | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Brer | punct |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sence | nmod |
| 15 | Rastus | Rastus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 longer | punct |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 longer | obl |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 hit | punct |
| 19 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 an | parataxis |
| 20 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 longer | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 longer | cop |
| 22 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 sence | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin down in a quote | present | the deacon of a colored church = deacon | dar | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dar=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hit in a quote | infinitive | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | an obl; long property | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/48/4/