Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 12
She say she meet er angel in de road, an' he p'inted straight fer de mornin' star, an' tell her fer ter prepar'.
Who acts: wuz, angel · What happens: say, meet, p'int, tell · To what, where: angel, de road, fer mornin star, fer · 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, angel), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 meet | nsubj |
| 4 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 say | ccomp |
| 5 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 angel | advmod |
| 6 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meet | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 8 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 road | compound |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 angel | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 p'inted | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 p'inted | det |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 p'inted | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 p'inted | nsubj |
| 14 | p'inted | p'int | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angel | conj |
| 15 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 16 fer | advmod |
| 16 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 star | amod |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 mornin | compound |
| 18 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 star | compound |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 mornin | punct |
| 20 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 p'inted | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tell | punct |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tell | det |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 tell | punct |
| 24 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 star | parataxis |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 fer | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tell | obj |
| 27 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 28 prepar | case |
| 28 | prepar | prepar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tell | obl |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 tell | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | wuz | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | meet | infinitive | wuz | angel | de road | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent angel=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | p'int | past | angel | fer mornin star | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | wuz's fer | ter prepar | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fer=Recipient |
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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