Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 19
I enty fer see no crab an' no oscher; en swimp, he no stay 'roun'.
Who acts: I, crab · What happens: see, roun · To what, where: crab
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, crab), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 2 | enty | enty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fer | compound |
| 3 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 I | flat |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 crab | det |
| 6 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 oscher | det |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 oscher | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 oscher | det |
| 10 | oscher | oscher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 swimp | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swimp | compound |
| 13 | swimp | swimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 oscher | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 roun | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 roun | nsubj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 stay | det |
| 17 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 roun | nsubj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 roun | punct |
| 19 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | parataxis |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 roun | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | no crab | a oscher and en swimp obl:unmarked | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crab=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | roun | crab | 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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