Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 13
"An' 'tain't dat," responded the darkey, who held a paper in his hand. "
Who acts: tai dat, darkey · What happens: respond, hold · To what, where: darkey, paper, hand
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tai dat, darkey), 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 | _ | 7 dat | punct |
| 2 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dat | det |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 An | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dat | punct |
| 5 | tai | tai | X | _ | 7 dat | compound |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 dat | advmod |
| 7 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 responded | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dat | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dat | punct |
| 10 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 darkey | det |
| 12 | darkey | darkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 responded | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 held | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 held | nsubj |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 darkey | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 paper | det |
| 17 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 responded | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respond speech: other | past | a tai dat | the darkey | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent darkey=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | the darkey | a paper | dat's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent paper=Theme in hand=Location |
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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