Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 38
Hit's wunner deze yer jobs w'at las's a long time."
Who acts: wunner deze · What happens: be · To what, where: long time
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 (wunner deze), 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 | Hit | Hit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 deze | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Hit | case |
| 3 | wunner | wunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deze | compound |
| 4 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 time | nsubj |
| 5 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 jobs | amod |
| 6 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 w'at | compound |
| 7 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deze | conj |
| 8 | las | las | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 time | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 time | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Hit's wunner deze and jobs w'at | a long time | 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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