Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 56
Long 'bout den de wedder wuz fetchin' de nat'al sperrits er turkentime outen de pine-trees an' de groun' wuz fa'rly smokin' wid de hotness.
Who acts: turkentime outen · What happens: tree · To what, where: groun wuz
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 (turkentime outen), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 de | amod |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
| 3 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 den | compound |
| 4 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 de | compound |
| 5 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fetchin | nsubj |
| 6 | wedder | wed | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 fetchin | amod |
| 7 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fetchin | compound |
| 8 | fetchin | fetchin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 fetchin | punct |
| 10 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 fetchin | conj |
| 11 | nat'al | nat'al | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sperrits | amod |
| 12 | sperrits | sperrit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fetchin | conj |
| 13 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 outen | advmod |
| 14 | turkentime | turkentime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 outen | compound |
| 15 | outen | outen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trees | nsubj |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 outen | flat:foreign |
| 17 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trees | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 pine | punct |
| 19 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sperrits | acl:relcl |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wuz | det |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 groun | punct |
| 22 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 groun | compound |
| 23 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wuz | compound |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 groun | punct |
| 25 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trees | nmod |
| 26 | fa'rly | fa'rly | ADV | _ | 29 wid | advmod |
| 27 | smokin | smokin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wid | compound |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 wid | punct |
| 29 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wuz | nmod |
| 30 | de | de | ADP | _ | 31 hotness | case |
| 31 | hotness | hotness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wid | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fetchin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tree | turkentime outen | a groun wuz smokin wid de hotness | tree rules |
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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