Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 23
I wuz settin' up talkin' wid my ole 'oman, kinder puzzlin' 'roun' fer ter see whar de nex' meal's vittles wuz a gwineter cum fum, an' I feel a little ache sorter crawlin' 'long on my jaw-bone, kinder feelin' his way.
Who acts: I, talkin, ole oman, vittles · What happens: wuz, wi, see, feel · To what, where: settin, whar nex, cum fum, sorter crawlin
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 (I, talkin, ole oman, vittles), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wuz | nsubj |
| 2 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | settin | settin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wuz | obj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 settin | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 wid | mark |
| 6 | talkin | talkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wid | nsubj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 wid | punct |
| 8 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wuz | advcl |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 oman | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 oman | amod |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 ole | punct |
| 12 | oman | oman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 puzzlin | punct |
| 14 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 puzzlin | amod |
| 15 | puzzlin | puzzlin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | nsubj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 puzzlin | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 roun | punct |
| 18 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ter | compound |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 roun | punct |
| 20 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ter | compound |
| 21 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | compound |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wid | ccomp |
| 23 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 nex | compound |
| 24 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 whar | flat:foreign |
| 25 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 nex | punct |
| 27 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 vittles | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 meal | case |
| 29 | vittles | vittle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 wuz | nsubj |
| 30 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | parataxis |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fum | det |
| 32 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cum | compound |
| 33 | cum | cum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fum | compound |
| 34 | fum | fum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wuz | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 an | punct |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fum | nmod |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 feel | punct |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 feel | nsubj |
| 39 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 an | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 crawlin | det |
| 41 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 sorter | amod |
| 42 | ache | ache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sorter | compound |
| 43 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 crawlin | compound |
| 44 | crawlin | crawlin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 feel | obj |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 52 bone | punct |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 52 bone | punct |
| 47 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 52 bone | advmod |
| 48 | on | on | ADP | _ | 52 bone | case |
| 49 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 bone | nmod:poss |
| 50 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 bone | compound |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 jaw | punct |
| 52 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 crawlin | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 feelin | punct |
| 54 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 55 feelin | amod |
| 55 | feelin | feelin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 bone | appos |
| 56 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 55 feelin | punct |
| 57 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 way | nmod:poss |
| 58 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 feel | obl:unmarked |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz | present | I | settin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wi | past | talkin | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | my ole oman | whar nex | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nex=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | wuz | present | meal's vittles | a cum fum an | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | present | I | a sorter crawlin and my jaw bone | puzzlin's way obl:unmarked | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crawlin=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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