Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 61
Day 'fo' yistiddy I kotch one un um lookin' over de fence at my shoats, an' I sez, sez I:
Who acts: Day, I · What happens: kotch, sez · To what, where: one um lookin, de fence
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 (Day, I), 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 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kotch | nsubj |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 kotch | punct |
| 3 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 yistiddy | case |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 yistiddy | punct |
| 5 | yistiddy | yistiddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kotch | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 kotch | nsubj |
| 7 | kotch | kotch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 lookin | nummod |
| 9 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 um | compound |
| 10 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lookin | compound |
| 11 | lookin | lookin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kotch | obj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 lookin | punct |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 fence | case |
| 14 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fence | amod |
| 15 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lookin | nmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 shoats | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shoats | nmod:poss |
| 18 | shoats | shoat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fence | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 an | punct |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lookin | conj |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 sez | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 sez | nsubj |
| 23 | sez | sez | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 an | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sez | punct |
| 25 | sez | sez | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 sez | conj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 sez | nsubj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 kotch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kotch | present | Day | one um lookin | de fence at my shoats | for yistiddy | tree rules | ||
| 2 | sez | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sez | present | I | 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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