Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 1
"BRER REMUS, is you heern tell er deze doin's out yer in de udder eend er town?" asked a colored deacon of the church the other day.
Who acts: BRER, deze doin, colored deacon · What happens: be, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BRER, deze doin, colored deacon), 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 BRER | punct |
| 2 | BRER | BRER | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | REMUS | REMUS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 BRER | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 BRER | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | cop |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | heern | heern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 tell | advmod |
| 10 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 doin | compound |
| 11 | doin | doin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 yer | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 yer | cop |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 yer | advmod |
| 14 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 asked | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 eend | case |
| 16 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eend | amod |
| 17 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eend | compound |
| 18 | eend | eend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 asked | nsubj |
| 19 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 town | advmod |
| 20 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eend | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 town | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 town | punct |
| 23 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 deacon | det |
| 25 | colored | colored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 deacon | amod |
| 26 | deacon | deacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 asked | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 church | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 church | det |
| 29 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 deacon | nmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 day | det |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 day | amod |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | BRER | tell property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | deze doin | out, y property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | a colored deacon of the church | day | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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