Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 8
Mars John an' Miss Sally ain't got nuthin' dat's too good fer me, an' de fus news I know'd Miss Sally wuz a hollerin' fer Remus.
Who acts: Miss Sally, I, Mars · What happens: not get, know, wuz · To what, where: fus news, fer
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 (Miss Sally, I, Mars), 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 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 wuz | nsubj |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mars | flat |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 nuthin | det |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 5 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sally | compound |
| 6 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 got | nsubj |
| 7 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 got | advmod |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 nuthin | amod |
| 10 | nuthin | nuthin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mars | appos |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 fer | punct |
| 12 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fer | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 dat | case |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 good | advmod |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fer | amod |
| 16 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nuthin | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fer | goeswith |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 news | punct |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 news | det |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 de | punct |
| 21 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 news | dep |
| 22 | fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 news | amod |
| 23 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mars | appos |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 know | nsubj |
| 25 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 news | acl:relcl |
| 26 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 Sally | aux |
| 27 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Sally | compound |
| 28 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mars | conj |
| 29 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 hollerin | det |
| 31 | hollerin | hollerin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fer | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 31 hollerin | case |
| 33 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wuz | obj |
| 34 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 fer | appos |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | present · passive | Miss Sally | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | know | present | I | a fus news not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wuz | present | Mars and Miss Sally | a hollerin's fer | 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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