Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 59
W'en dey passes now dey looks at de chicken-coop an' at der tater-patch.
Who acts: W'en dey, dey · What happens: pass, look
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 (W'en dey, dey), 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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dey | compound |
| 2 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passes | nsubj |
| 3 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 looks | advmod |
| 5 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looks | nsubj |
| 6 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 passes | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 coop | case |
| 8 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 coop | compound |
| 9 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coop | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 chicken | punct |
| 11 | coop | coop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looks | obl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 patch | det |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 patch | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 patch | case |
| 15 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 patch | amod |
| 16 | tater | tater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 patch | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 tater | punct |
| 18 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looks | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | W'en dey | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | present | dey | now | at a der tater patch; at de chicken coop | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at coop=Theme |
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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