Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. a Confession, sentence 7
"'Tain't dat, boss:' said the old man, seeing that he was about to be cornered; 'tain't dat.
Who acts: Tai dat, man · What happens: say, see, be, corner · To what, where: dat · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tai dat, 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 dat | punct |
| 3 | Tai | Tai | X | _ | 5 dat | compound |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dat | advmod |
| 5 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 boss | punct |
| 7 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dat | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 dat | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 dat | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seeing | punct |
| 15 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 about | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 about | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 about | cop |
| 19 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seeing | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 cornered | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 cornered | aux:pass |
| 22 | cornered | corner | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 about | xcomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 dat | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 tai | punct |
| 25 | tai | tai | X | Foreign=Yes | 27 dat | dep |
| 26 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 dat | advmod |
| 27 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Tai dat and boss | dat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | gerund | Tai dat and boss not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | man | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | corner in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | man not said here | 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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