Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 18
No longer'n yistiddy I seed one er de head men er one er dese Tempeler's s'cieties totin' water fer a bar-room.
Who acts: one er, s'cieties · What happens: man, fer · To what, where: bar room
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 (one er, s'cieties), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 longer'n | det |
| 2 | longer'n | longer'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seed | nsubj |
| 3 | yistiddy | yistiddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seed | amod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 seed | nsubj |
| 5 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 er | nummod |
| 7 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 men | nsubj |
| 8 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 er | flat:foreign |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 men | compound |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seed | nmod |
| 11 | er | er | ADP | _ | 14 dese | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 dese | nummod |
| 13 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dese | compound |
| 14 | dese | dese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 men | nmod |
| 15 | Tempeler | Tempeler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 s'cieties | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Tempeler | case |
| 17 | s'cieties | s'ciety | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fer | nsubj |
| 18 | totin | totin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fer | compound |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 totin | punct |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fer | compound |
| 21 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dese | nmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 room | det |
| 23 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 room | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 bar | punct |
| 25 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fer | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | man | one er | er one er dese | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fer | Tempeler's s'cieties | a bar room | 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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