Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 6
"How many er you boys," said he, as he put his basket down, "is done a han's turn dis day?
Who acts: many, man · What happens: er, say, put down, do · To what, where: you, basket · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, man), 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 er | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 er | nsubj |
| 4 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 er | obj |
| 6 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 er | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 er | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 put | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 put | nsubj |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 basket | nmod:poss |
| 16 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 put | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 done | punct |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux:pass |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 han | det |
| 23 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 day | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 han | case |
| 25 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dis | compound |
| 26 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 day | compound |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 done | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | er in a quote | present | many | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | put down | past | man | man's basket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent basket=Goal | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present · passive | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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