Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 28
Dey ain't ketchin' no mo', is dey, boss?"
Who acts: Dey, mo · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: dey
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 (Dey, mo), 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 | Dey | Dey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ketchin | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Vrnc Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ketchin | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ketchin | advmod |
| 4 | ketchin | ketchin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ketchin | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 mo | det |
| 7 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dey | nsubj |
| 8 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 7 mo | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dey | cop |
| 10 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ketchin | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 boss | punct |
| 12 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dey | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ketchin | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ketchin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Dey | ketchin property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | no mo | dey and boss | 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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