Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 46
Little more'n he'd a bin aboard er de wrong waggin.
Who acts: er · What happens: de · To what, where: wrong waggin
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 (er), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 more'n | amod |
| 2 | more'n | more'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 'd | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 'd | nsubj |
| 4 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bin | det |
| 6 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 'd | obj |
| 7 | aboard | aboard | SCONJ | _ | 9 de | mark |
| 8 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 de | nsubj |
| 9 | de | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 'd | advcl |
| 10 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 waggin | amod |
| 11 | waggin | waggin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 de | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 'd | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | de | present | er | wrong waggin | 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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