Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 30
"'Kase ef dey is, you k'n des put my name down wid de migrashun niggers."
Who acts: Kase ef, my · What happens: be, put down, name · To what, where: Kase ef, name
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 (Kase ef, my), 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 | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ef | punct |
| 3 | Kase | Kase | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ef | compound |
| 4 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | nsubj |
| 5 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ef | flat:foreign |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ef | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 k'n | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 k'n | nsubj |
| 9 | k'n | k'n | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 ef | conj |
| 10 | des | des | X | _ | 9 k'n | flat:foreign |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 put | compound:prt |
| 15 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 niggers | compound |
| 17 | migrashun | migrashun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 niggers | compound |
| 18 | niggers | nigger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 put | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Kase ef | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | put down in a quote | infinitive | Kase ef | my name | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name in a quote | my | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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