Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 12
"He been long time, ain't he, Daddy Ben?"
Who acts: dun · What happens: not be · To what, where: long time
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dun), 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 | _ | 12 Ben | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 time | nsubj |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 time | cop |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Ben | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ai | punct |
| 7 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | parataxis |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 time | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 Ben | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ben | punct |
| 11 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ben | compound |
| 12 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ben | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ben | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | participle | dun | long time | tree rules |
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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