Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 17
Dey stan' up mighty squar' ontwell dere dues commence ter cramp um, an' dey don't stan' de racket wuf a durn.
Who acts: Dey stan · What happens: commence, not stan · To what, where: cramp um, racket wuf
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 (Dey stan), 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 | Dey | Dey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stan | compound |
| 2 | stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 commence | nsubj |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 stan | punct |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 squar | case |
| 5 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 squar | amod |
| 6 | squar | squar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 commence | obl |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 dues | punct |
| 8 | ontwell | ontwell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dere | compound |
| 9 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dues | compound |
| 10 | dues | due | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 commence | nsubj |
| 11 | commence | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cramp | compound |
| 13 | cramp | cramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 um | compound |
| 14 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 commence | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dey | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dey | det |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 dey | punct |
| 18 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 um | conj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 stan | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 stan | advmod |
| 21 | stan | stan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 commence | conj |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 stan | punct |
| 23 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 racket | compound |
| 24 | racket | racket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wuf | compound |
| 25 | wuf | wuf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stan | obj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 durn | det |
| 27 | durn | durn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stan | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 commence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commence | present | Dey stan | cramp um and a dey | up mighty squar | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not stan | present · do-support | Dey stan not said here | racket wuf | 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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