Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 7
I wuzzent up dar close to whar Miss Sarah wuz a readin', but I kinder geddered in dat it wuz one er deze 'ere w'atzisnames w'at you hollers inter one year an it comes out er de udder.
Who acts: I, dar, you · What happens: wuzzent up, gedder, wuz, inter, come out · To what, where: dar, dat, one er deze, w'atzisnames w'at, de udder
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 (I, dar, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wuzzent | nsubj |
| 2 | wuzzent | wuzzent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 wuzzent | compound:prt |
| 4 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wuzzent | obj |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dar | amod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 wuz | case |
| 7 | whar | whar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wuz | amod |
| 8 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sarah | compound |
| 9 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 wuz | compound |
| 10 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 close | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 readin | det |
| 12 | readin | readin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wuz | conj |
| 13 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 12 readin | dep |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 geddered | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 geddered | nsubj |
| 16 | kinder | kinder | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 geddered | aux |
| 17 | geddered | gedder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 wuzzent | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 dat | case |
| 19 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 geddered | obl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wuz | nsubj |
| 21 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 geddered | parataxis |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 deze | nummod |
| 23 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 deze | compound |
| 24 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wuz | obj |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 ere | punct |
| 26 | ere | ere | X | Foreign=Yes | 28 w'at | dep |
| 27 | w'atzisnames | w'atzisname | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 w'at | compound |
| 28 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 deze | conj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 inter | nsubj |
| 30 | hollers | holler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 31 | inter | inter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 year | nummod |
| 33 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 inter | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 comes | det |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 comes | nsubj |
| 36 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 wuz | conj |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 comes | compound:prt |
| 38 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 de | advmod |
| 39 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 udder | amod |
| 40 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 comes | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wuzzent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuzzent up | present | I | dar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gedder | present | I | dat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wuz | present | dar | one er deze and w'atzisnames w'at | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | inter | present | you | w'atzisnames w'at not said here | year | tree rules | |||
| 5 | come out | present | dar | de udder | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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