Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 15
"He good while pas'; when I wer' pickaninny.
Who acts: Daddy · What happens: pickaninny
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 (Daddy), 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 good | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 good | nsubj |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 pas | mark |
| 5 | pas | pa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 good | nsubj |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 pas | case |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 pickaninny | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 pickaninny | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 pickaninny | nsubj |
| 10 | wer | wer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pickaninny | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 wer | case |
| 12 | pickaninny | pickaninny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 good | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pickaninny in a quote | Daddy | 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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