Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 58
Dey done got so dey'll look over in de yard, an' nex' news you know dey'll be tryin' fer ter scrape up 'quaintence wid de dog.
Who acts: Dey, nex news, fer ter · What happens: do, get, look over, know, be, scrape up · To what, where: Dey, tryin, quaintence wid · 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 (Dey, nex news, fer ter), 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 | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Dey | acl |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 look | advmod |
| 5 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | nsubj |
| 6 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 look | aux |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 got | advcl |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 look | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 yard | case |
| 10 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 yard | amod |
| 11 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 news | det |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 nex | punct |
| 15 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 news | compound |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 nex | punct |
| 17 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | nsubj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 20 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tryin | nsubj |
| 21 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 tryin | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tryin | cop |
| 23 | tryin | tryin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | ccomp |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 tryin | punct |
| 25 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 ter | amod |
| 26 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 scrape | nsubj |
| 27 | scrape | scrape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | ccomp |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 scrape | compound:prt |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 wid | punct |
| 30 | quaintence | quaintence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wid | compound |
| 31 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 scrape | obl |
| 32 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 33 dog | compound |
| 33 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wid | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | Dey not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | past | Dey | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | look over | future | dey | in de yard; over property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in yard=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | present | a nex news | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is a | future | dey | tryin | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | scrape up | present | fer ter | quaintence wid and de dog | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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