Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 11
"You year dat, don't you?" said one or two of the younger negroes.
Who acts: You · What happens: dat, not do, say · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. the Phonograph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | _ | 4 dat | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 dat | nsubj |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dat | compound |
| 4 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 dat | appos |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 two | cc |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 one | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 negroes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 negroes | det |
| 17 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 negroes | amod |
| 18 | negroes | negro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dat in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | infinitive | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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