Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 19
Dey goes in, an' dar dey er tooken and dar dey hangs on twel you shakes de box, an' den dey draps out des ez fresh ez deze yer fishes w'at you git fum Savannah, an' you ain't got time fer ter look at dere gills, nudder."
Who acts: Dey, dar dey, you, den dey, des, Savannah · What happens: go in, hang, shake, drap out, deze, fum · To what, where: de box, twel, Savannah
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 (Dey, dar dey, you, den dey), 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 | Dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 goes | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dey | det |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 dey | punct |
| 7 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dey | compound |
| 8 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hangs | nsubj |
| 9 | er | er | CCONJ | _ | 13 dey | cc |
| 10 | tooken | tooken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dey | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dar | cc |
| 12 | dar | dar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tooken | conj |
| 13 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dey | conj |
| 14 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 goes | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 twel | case |
| 16 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shakes | obl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 shakes | nsubj |
| 18 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hangs | conj |
| 19 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 box | compound |
| 20 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shakes | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 draps | punct |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dey | det |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 dey | punct |
| 24 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dey | compound |
| 25 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 draps | nsubj |
| 26 | draps | drap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 box | acl:relcl |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 draps | compound:prt |
| 28 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | 32 deze | nsubj |
| 29 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 deze | amod |
| 30 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 deze | amod |
| 31 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 deze | amod |
| 32 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 draps | parataxis |
| 33 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 fishes | nmod:poss |
| 34 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 w'at | compound |
| 35 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 deze | conj |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 fum | nsubj |
| 37 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fum | nsubj |
| 38 | fum | fum | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 39 | Savannah | Savannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 fum | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 got | punct |
| 41 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 got | det |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 got | punct |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 got | nsubj |
| 44 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 got | aux |
| 45 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 got | advmod |
| 46 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 Savannah | acl:relcl |
| 47 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 got | obl:unmarked |
| 48 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 ter | compound |
| 49 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 time | conj |
| 50 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 got | xcomp |
| 51 | at | at | ADP | _ | 53 gills | case |
| 52 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 gills | compound |
| 53 | gills | gill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 look | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 nudder | punct |
| 55 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 gills | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | present | Dey | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hang | present | a dar dey er tooken dey | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shake | present | you | de box | twel | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent box=Theme on twel=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | drap out | present | a den dey | de box not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | deze | des | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | fum | present | you | Savannah | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not get | present · passive | you | Savannah not said here | time | tree rules | |||
| 8 | look | infinitive | Savannah not said here | at dere gills and nudder | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gill=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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