Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 10
Leas'ways I galloped up ter de back po'ch, an' dar sot de watermillions dez ez natchul ez ef dey'd er bin raised on de ole Spivey place in Putmon County.
Who acts: Leas'ways, ter, ez natchul ez ef dey · What happens: gallop up, po'ch, er, raise · To what, where: bin, ole Spivey place
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leas'ways, ter, ez natchul ez ef 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 | Leas'ways | leas'way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 galloped | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 galloped | nsubj |
| 3 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 galloped | compound:prt |
| 5 | ter | ter | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 po'ch | nsubj |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 ter | flat:foreign |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 po'ch | advmod |
| 8 | po'ch | po'ch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 galloped | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sot | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sot | det |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sot | punct |
| 12 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sot | compound |
| 13 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 po'ch | appos |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 sot | flat |
| 15 | watermillions | watermillion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sot | conj |
| 16 | dez | dez | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 watermillions | conj |
| 17 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dey | amod |
| 18 | natchul | natchul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dey | amod |
| 19 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dey | amod |
| 20 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dey | compound |
| 21 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 er | nsubj |
| 22 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 er | aux |
| 23 | er | er | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dez | acl:relcl |
| 24 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 er | obj |
| 25 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 bin | acl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 place | case |
| 27 | de | de | ADP | _ | 30 place | case |
| 28 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 place | amod |
| 29 | Spivey | Spivey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 place | compound |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 raised | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 County | case |
| 32 | Putmon | Putmon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 County | compound |
| 33 | County | County | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 place | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop up | past | Leas'ways | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | po'ch | ter | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | er | would | ez natchul ez ef dey | bin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | raise | participle | bin not said here | ole Spivey place in Putmon County | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on place=Destination |
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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