Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 63
"'Oh, no,' sezee, 'I wuz des lookin' at dere p'ints.'
Who acts: agricultural editor · What happens: wuz · To what, where: lookin, dere p'ints
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 (agricultural editor), 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 | _ | 8 sezee | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sezee | punct |
| 3 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 sezee | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Oh | punct |
| 5 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 sezee | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sezee | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sezee | punct |
| 8 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wuz | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 wuz | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wuz | nsubj |
| 12 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sezee | conj |
| 13 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lookin | det |
| 14 | lookin | lookin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wuz | obj |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 lookin | punct |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 p'ints | case |
| 17 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 p'ints | compound |
| 18 | p'ints | p'int | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wuz | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sezee | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sezee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz in a quote | present | the agricultural editor = editor | des lookin | dere p'ints | 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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