Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 8
In de winder glass dar you kin see de flags a flyin', an' Jacob's lather is dar, an' dar's writin' on de pane w'at no man can't read--leas'wise dey ain't none read it yit."
Who acts: you, lather, man, none · What happens: kin, see, be, not read · To what, where: de glass dar, de flags, de pane w'at, lather
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 (you, lather, man, none), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 dar | case |
| 2 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dar | amod |
| 3 | winder | winder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glass | compound |
| 4 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dar | compound |
| 5 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kin | obl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 kin | nsubj |
| 7 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 kin | xcomp |
| 9 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flags | compound |
| 10 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 flyin | det |
| 12 | flyin | flyin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flags | conj |
| 13 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 26 writin | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 writin | det |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 dar | punct |
| 16 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lather | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Jacob | case |
| 18 | lather | lather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dar | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 dar | cop |
| 20 | dar | dar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 writin | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 writin | punct |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dar | det |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 dar | punct |
| 24 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 writin | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 dar | case |
| 26 | writin | writin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flyin | appos |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 writin | punct |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 w'at | case |
| 29 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 w'at | amod |
| 30 | pane | pane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 w'at | compound |
| 31 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 writin | nmod |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 man | det |
| 33 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 read | nsubj |
| 34 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 read | aux |
| 35 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 read | advmod |
| 36 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 ai | punct |
| 38 | leas'wise | leas'wise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dey | compound |
| 39 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ai | compound |
| 40 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 writin | parataxis |
| 41 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 read | advmod |
| 42 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 43 read | nsubj |
| 43 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 ai | acl:relcl |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 read | obj |
| 45 | yit | yit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 read | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kin | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 kin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kin | present | you | de glass dar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | you not said here | de flags and a flyin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flag=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Jacob's lather | dar property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not read | can | no man | de pane w'at not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not read | infinitive | none | lather | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient yit=Topic |
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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