Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 25
"Him po' country fer true," commented the Savannah negro; "he no like Sawanny.
Who acts: Him po · What happens: comment · To what, where: Savannah negro
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 (Him po), 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 | _ | 3 po | punct |
| 2 | Him | him | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 po | amod |
| 3 | po | po | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 commented | nsubj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 country | punct |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 po | conj |
| 6 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 country | amod |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fer | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 po | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 po | punct |
| 10 | commented | comment | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 negro | det |
| 12 | Savannah | Savannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 negro | compound |
| 13 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 commented | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sawanny | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sawanny | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 Sawanny | nsubj |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 Sawanny | advmod |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 Sawanny | case |
| 19 | Sawanny | Sawanny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 commented | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 commented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comment speech: other | past | Him po and country | the Savannah negro | like Sawanny | 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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