Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 20
"Den you des played 'roun' de aidges.
Who acts: Den · What happens: play · To what, where: roun aidges
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den), 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 | _ | 2 Den | punct |
| 2 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 played | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Den | nmod |
| 4 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 played | nsubj |
| 5 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 roun | punct |
| 7 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 aidges | compound |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 roun | punct |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 roun | conj |
| 10 | aidges | aidge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 played | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play in a quote | past | Den you | roun aidges | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aidge=Theme |
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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