Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 35
"Oh, I'm a waitin' on a culled gemmun fum Savannah--wunner deze yer high livers you bin tellin' 'bout."
Who acts: Uncle Remus, waitin, wunner deze, yer high livers · What happens: be, cull, fum, liver, bin · To what, where: waitin, Savannah, culled gemmun, tellin bout
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 (Uncle Remus, waitin, wunner deze, yer high livers), 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 | _ | 7 waitin | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 waitin | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 waitin | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 waitin | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 waitin | det |
| 7 | waitin | waitin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fum | nsubj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 waitin | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 gemmun | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 gemmun | det |
| 11 | culled | cull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 gemmun | amod |
| 12 | gemmun | gemmun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fum | obl |
| 13 | fum | fum | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | Savannah | Savannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fum | obj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 livers | punct |
| 16 | wunner | wunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deze | compound |
| 17 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 livers | nsubj |
| 18 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 livers | amod |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 livers | amod |
| 20 | livers | liver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 bin | nsubj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 bin | nsubj |
| 22 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fum | parataxis |
| 23 | tellin | tellin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bout | compound |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 tellin | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 tellin | punct |
| 26 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bin | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fum | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fum | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Uncle Remus = remus | a waitin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cull in a quote | participle | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | fum in a quote | infinitive | a waitin | Savannah | a culled gemmun | tree rules | |||
| 4 | liver in a quote | wunner deze | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | bin in a quote | present | yer high livers | tellin bout | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bout=Theme |
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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