Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 18
Fer mighty nigh fo' hours dey kep' up dat racket, an' des ez soon ez a little pain 'ud jump up de big un 'ud light onter it an' gobble it up, an' den de big un 'ud go sailin' roun' huntin' fer mo'.
Who acts: Fer, des ez, big un · What happens: kep, ez, jump up, gobble up, go · To what, where: racket, little pain, pain, sailin
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 (Fer, des ez, big un), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kep | nsubj |
| 2 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dey | amod |
| 3 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 7 dey | advmod |
| 4 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 7 dey | case |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dey | punct |
| 6 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dey | compound |
| 7 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fer | conj |
| 8 | kep | kep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 racket | punct |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 racket | advmod |
| 11 | dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 racket | det |
| 12 | racket | racket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kep | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 an | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 racket | nmod |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 ez | punct |
| 16 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ez | compound |
| 17 | ez | ez | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ez | nsubj |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 ez | advmod |
| 19 | ez | ez | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 an | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pain | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pain | amod |
| 22 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ez | obj |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 ud | punct |
| 24 | ud | ud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pain | conj |
| 25 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ez | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADV | _ | 25 jump | advmod |
| 27 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 29 un | dep |
| 28 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 un | amod |
| 29 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 go | nsubj |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 onter | punct |
| 31 | ud | ud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 onter | amod |
| 32 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 onter | compound |
| 33 | onter | onter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 un | appos |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 gobble | nsubj |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 gobble | det |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 gobble | punct |
| 37 | gobble | gobble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 onter | acl:relcl |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 gobble | obj |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 gobble | compound:prt |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 den | punct |
| 41 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 den | det |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 den | punct |
| 43 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 onter | conj |
| 44 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 43 den | flat:foreign |
| 45 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 un | amod |
| 46 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 den | conj |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 48 ud | punct |
| 48 | ud | ud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 un | conj |
| 49 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 jump | parataxis |
| 50 | sailin | sailin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 go | obj |
| 51 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 52 roun | punct |
| 52 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 sailin | conj |
| 53 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 54 huntin | punct |
| 54 | huntin | huntin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 mo | compound |
| 55 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 54 huntin | punct |
| 56 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 57 mo | amod |
| 57 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 roun | appos |
| 58 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 57 mo | punct |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kep | present | Fer and mighty hours dey | that racket an | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ez | present | des ez | a little pain and ud | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | jump up | infinitive | des ez not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | gobble up | infinitive | fer | pain | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | big un | sailin and roun | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sailin=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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