Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 10
"I done bin dar, Brer Remus; I done seed um wid bofe my eyes.
Who acts: Some · What happens: do · To what, where: bin dar, seed um
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 (Some), 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 done | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 done | nsubj |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dar | compound |
| 5 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 done | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Brer | punct |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 done | obl |
| 8 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | flat |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 done | nsubj |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | parataxis |
| 12 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 um | compound |
| 13 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 done | obj |
| 14 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bofe | amod |
| 15 | bofe | bofe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 done | obj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bofe | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | participle | Some | bin dar | Brer obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dar=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | Some | seed um | 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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