Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 34
W'en dem aches gallop back dey galloped fer ter stay, an' dey wuz so mixed up dat I couldn't tell one fum de udder.
Who acts: W'en dem aches, dey, fer ter, I · What happens: gallop back, gallop, stay, mix up, not tell · To what, where: dey wuz, one de udder · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (W'en dem aches, dey, fer ter, I), 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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 aches | compound |
| 2 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 aches | compound |
| 3 | aches | ache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gallop | nsubj |
| 4 | gallop | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 gallop | advmod |
| 6 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 galloped | nsubj |
| 7 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gallop | ccomp |
| 8 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 ter | amod |
| 9 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stay | nsubj |
| 10 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 galloped | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wuz | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wuz | det |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 wuz | punct |
| 14 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wuz | compound |
| 15 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 galloped | parataxis |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 mixed | advmod |
| 17 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 wuz | acl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 mixed | compound:prt |
| 19 | dat | dat | SCONJ | _ | 23 tell | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 tell | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 tell | advmod |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 galloped | advcl |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 udder | nummod |
| 25 | fum | fum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 de | compound |
| 26 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 udder | compound |
| 27 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tell | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gallop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop back | present | W'en dem aches | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gallop | past | dey | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stay | present | fer ter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mix up | participle | a dey wuz not said here | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not tell speech: assert | could | I | one de udder | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent udder=Recipient |
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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