Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 7
"I'm sorter up an' about," responded Uncle Remus, carelessly and calmly. "
Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: be, respond · To what, where: sorter · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 4 sorter | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sorter | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorter | cop |
| 4 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 responded | mark |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 responded | det |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 about | punct |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 responded | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 about | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 about | punct |
| 11 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorter | advcl |
| 12 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Remus | compound |
| 13 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 responded | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carelessly | punct |
| 15 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 11 responded | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 calmly | cc |
| 17 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 15 carelessly | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorter | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorter | 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 | sorter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | respond speech: other | past | Uncle Remus | about, carelessly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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