Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 12
"I got strucken wid a sickness, an' she hit de ole nigger a joe- darter 'fo' she tu'n 'im loose."
Who acts: gentleman, dat · What happens: get, hit · To what, where: strucken wid, ole nigger
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, dat), 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 got | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | strucken | strucken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wid | amod |
| 5 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sickness | det |
| 7 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hit | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hit | det |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 hit | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hit | nsubj |
| 12 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 13 | de | de | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 nigger | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nigger | amod |
| 15 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hit | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 darter | det |
| 17 | joe | joe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 darter | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 joe | punct |
| 19 | darter | darter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hit | obj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 darter | punct |
| 21 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 24 tu'n | case |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 fo | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 tu'n | compound |
| 24 | tu'n | tu'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hit | obl |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 tu'n | punct |
| 26 | im | im | ADV | _ | 27 loose | advmod |
| 27 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 12 hit | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | a gentleman = gentleman | strucken wid | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent wid=Beneficiary sickness=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hit in a quote | past | dat | de's ole nigger | for she tu'n; loose property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent nigger=Patient darter=Result |
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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