Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 21
"Nex' mornin' de meezles 'd done kivered me, an' den ef I didn't git dosted by de ole 'oman I'm a Chinee.
Who acts: meezles, Nex, gentleman · What happens: do, kiver, not git, dost, be · To what, where: Nex, gentleman, den ef, Chinee
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 (meezles, Nex, gentleman), 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 | _ | 2 Nex | punct |
| 2 | Nex | Nex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 kivered | nsubj |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nex | punct |
| 4 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Nex | flat:foreign |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nex | punct |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 Nex | flat:foreign |
| 7 | meezles | meezle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 done | nsubj |
| 8 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Nex | acl:relcl |
| 10 | kivered | kiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 kivered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ef | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ef | det |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 ef | punct |
| 15 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ef | compound |
| 16 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kivered | parataxis |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 git | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 git | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 git | advmod |
| 20 | git | git | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ef | acl:relcl |
| 21 | dosted | dost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ef | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 oman | case |
| 23 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 oman | amod |
| 24 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 oman | amod |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 oman | punct |
| 26 | oman | oman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dosted | obl |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 Chinee | nsubj |
| 28 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 Chinee | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 Chinee | det |
| 30 | Chinee | Chinee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 oman | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 kivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past · perfect | meezles | Nex not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nex=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | kiver in a quote | past | Nex | a gentleman = gentleman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not git in a quote | past · do-support | a gentleman = gentleman | a den ef not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dost in a quote | participle | a den ef not said here | by de ole oman | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | a gentleman = gentleman | a Chinee | 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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