Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 35
You look sorter stuck up dis mawnin',' sezee, en den he rolled on de groun', en laft en laft twel he couldn't laff no mo'. '
Who acts: You, sorter, sezee, laft laft twel · What happens: look, stick up, mawnin, roll, not laff · To what, where: stuck dis mawnin, groun en
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 (You, sorter, sezee, laft laft twel), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mawnin | nsubj |
| 4 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mawnin | amod |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 stuck | compound:prt |
| 6 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mawnin | compound |
| 7 | mawnin | mawnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 look | ccomp |
| 8 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 7 mawnin | dep |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 sezee | punct |
| 10 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rolled | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 den | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 den | compound |
| 13 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sezee | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rolled | nsubj |
| 15 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mawnin | acl:relcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 en | case |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 groun | compound |
| 18 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | compound |
| 19 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 18 groun | dep |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rolled | obl |
| 21 | laft | laft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 twel | amod |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 laft | compound |
| 23 | laft | laft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 twel | compound |
| 24 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laff | nsubj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 laff | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 laff | aux |
| 27 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 laff | advmod |
| 28 | laff | laff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | nmod |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 mo | det |
| 30 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laff | appos |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 mo | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | You | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | stick up | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | mawnin | sorter | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | roll | past | sezee and en den | stuck dis mawnin not said here | groun en | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mawnin=Theme on en=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | not laff | could | laft laft twel | 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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