Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 2
"I ain't seed um," said Uncle Remus, feeling in his pocket for a fresh chew of tobacco. "
Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: say, feel · To what, where: pocket · 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 (Uncle Remus), 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 | _ | 3 ai | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ai | nsubj |
| 3 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 um | advmod |
| 5 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 um | compound |
| 6 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ai | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ai | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ai | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Remus | compound |
| 11 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feeling | punct |
| 13 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pocket | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 16 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feeling | obl | ||
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 chew | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 chew | det |
| 19 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 chew | amod |
| 20 | chew | chew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feeling | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tobacco | case |
| 22 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chew | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Uncle Remus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | feel | gerund | Uncle Remus not said here | Remus's pocket | for a fresh chew of tobacco | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in pocket=Location for chew=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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