Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Race Improvement, sentence 10

"Oh, dey er movin'," responded Uncle Remus. "

Who acts: dey er movin · What happens: respond · To what, where: Uncle Remus

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Race Improvement. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dey er movin), 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	_	6 movin	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 dey	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 movin	compound
5	er	er	X	_	6 movin	compound
6	movin	movin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 responded	nsubj
7	',	',	PUNCT	_	6 movin	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 movin	punct
9	responded	respond	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 responded	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 responded	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 responded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	respond speech: other	past	dey er movin	Uncle Remus					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent remus=Topic

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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