Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 10
"'How duz yo' sym'tums seem ter segashuate?' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
Who acts: yo sym'tums · What happens: seem, say · To what, where: ter segashuate, Brer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yo sym'tums), 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 | _ | 8 seem | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 yo | punct |
| 3 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 duz | advmod |
| 4 | duz | duz | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 yo | amod |
| 5 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sym'tums | compound |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 yo | punct |
| 7 | sym'tums | sym'tum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 seem | nsubj |
| 8 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sez | csubj |
| 9 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 segashuate | compound |
| 10 | segashuate | segashuate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seem | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 seem | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 seem | punct |
| 13 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | obj |
| 15 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sezee | punct |
| 17 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | present | yo sym'tums | ter segashuate | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme segashuate=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask in a quote | present | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |
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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