Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 35
"Dat's needer yer ner dar," responded Uncle Remus. "
Who acts: needer, yer ner dar · What happens: dar, respond · To what, where: Uncle Remus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (needer, yer ner dar), 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 | _ | 7 dar | punct |
| 2 | Dat | Dat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 needer | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Dat | case |
| 4 | needer | needer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dar | nsubj |
| 5 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 dar | amod |
| 6 | ner | ner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dar | compound |
| 7 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 responded | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dar | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dar | punct |
| 10 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Remus | compound |
| 12 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 responded | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 responded | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dar in a quote | Dat's needer | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | respond speech: other | past | yer ner dar | Uncle Remus | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent remus=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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