Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. a Confession, sentence 11
Ef dere's ruinashun ennywhar in de known wurril, she goes in de comp'ny uv a hongry nigger w'at's a totin' pies 'roun.'
Who acts: dere ruinashun ennywhar, boss, hongry nigger w'at · What happens: know, go, be · To what, where: wurril, de comp'ny uv, roun
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dere ruinashun ennywhar, boss, hongry nigger w'at), 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 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dere | compound |
| 2 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ennywhar | compound |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 dere | case |
| 4 | ruinashun | ruinashun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ennywhar | compound |
| 5 | ennywhar | ennywhar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 de | case |
| 7 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ennywhar | nmod |
| 8 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ennywhar | acl |
| 9 | wurril | wurril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 known | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 goes | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 goes | nsubj |
| 12 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ennywhar | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 uv | case |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 uv | compound |
| 15 | comp'ny | comp'ny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 uv | amod |
| 16 | uv | ultra-violet | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 12 goes | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 w'at | det |
| 18 | hongry | hongry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 w'at | amod |
| 19 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 w'at | compound |
| 20 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 roun | nsubj |
| 21 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 roun | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 roun | det |
| 23 | totin | totin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pies | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 23 totin | case |
| 25 | pies | pie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 roun | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 25 pies | case |
| 27 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 uv | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ennywhar | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ennywhar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | dere ruinashun ennywhar in de not said here | wurril | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wurril=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | present | boss | de comp'ny uv | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ultra-violet=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a hongry nigger w'at | totin's pies's roun | 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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