Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 11
Cullud lady what wuz intranced done woke up an' say dey ain't much time fer ter tarry.
Who acts: wuz, ai · What happens: intranc, do, wake up, say, ter · To what, where: wuz, Cullud lady · 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 (wuz, ai), 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 | Cullud | Cullud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lady | compound |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 woke | obj |
| 4 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 woke | nsubj |
| 5 | intranced | intranc | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wuz | acl |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 intranced | xcomp |
| 7 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lady | acl:relcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 woke | compound:prt |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dey | det |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dey | compound |
| 12 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 woke | obj |
| 13 | ai | ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 ter | nsubj |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ter | compound |
| 17 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ter | compound |
| 18 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dey | nmod |
| 19 | tarry | tarry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ter | amod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lady | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intranc | participle | wuz not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | wake up | past | wuz | Cullud lady | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | ter | ai | 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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