Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 3
"Deze yer signs an' wunders whar dat cullud lady died day 'fo' yistiddy.
Who acts: whar dat cullud lady · What happens: die
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 (whar dat cullud lady), 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 | _ | 4 signs | punct |
| 2 | Deze | Deze | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 signs | compound |
| 3 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 signs | amod |
| 4 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wunders | det |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 wunders | punct |
| 7 | wunders | wunder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 signs | conj |
| 8 | whar | whar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lady | amod |
| 9 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lady | compound |
| 10 | cullud | cullud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lady | compound |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 died | nsubj |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 signs | parataxis |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 died | obl |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 day | punct |
| 15 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 17 yistiddy | case |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 yistiddy | punct |
| 17 | yistiddy | yistiddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 died | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 signs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | past | whar dat cullud lady | day | for yistiddy | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for yistiddy=Theme |
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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