Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 3
Dey amble long, dey did, des ez sociable ez a basket er kittens, twel bimeby dey hear Mr. Dog talkin' ter hisse'f way off in de woods.
Who acts: Dey, long dey, basket er kittens · What happens: amble, do, hear · To what, where: Mr. Dog
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey, long dey, basket er kittens), 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 | Dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 amble | nsubj |
| 2 | amble | amble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dey | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 5 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 amble | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sociable | punct |
| 8 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sociable | det |
| 9 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sociable | amod |
| 10 | sociable | sociable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 amble | parataxis |
| 11 | ez | ez | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 sociable | flat:foreign |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ez | appos |
| 13 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kittens | compound |
| 14 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kittens | compound |
| 15 | kittens | kitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 a | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dey | punct |
| 17 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dey | compound |
| 18 | bimeby | bimeby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dey | compound |
| 19 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kittens | conj |
| 20 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 kittens | acl |
| 21 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Dog | compound |
| 22 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hear | obj |
| 23 | talkin | talkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Dog | compound |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 way | punct |
| 25 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hisse'f | compound |
| 26 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 way | compound |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 talkin | appos |
| 28 | off | off | ADV | _ | 27 way | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 woods | case |
| 30 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 woods | compound |
| 31 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 off | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 amble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amble | present | Dey | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | past | long dey | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hear | infinitive | basket er kittens and twel bimeby dey not said here | Mr. Dog | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus |
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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