Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 19
Well, den, w'en de man comes long, w'ich Miss Sally say he will, you des gotter go up dar, pick out yo' wedder an' dere'll be a clock sot fer ter suit yo' case, an' w'en you git home, dere'll be yo' wedder a settin' out in de yard waitin' fer you.
Who acts: den man, Miss, you, dere · What happens: come, say, go up, pick out, be, suit · To what, where: dar, wedder sot fer ter, yo case, yo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. As a Weather Prophet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (den man, Miss, you, dere), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 3 den | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | compound |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 w'en | punct |
| 5 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 den | conj |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 den | conj |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 comes | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Miss | punct |
| 11 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Miss | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 say | nsubj |
| 13 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Miss | flat |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 comes | parataxis |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 will | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 19 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 gotter | det |
| 20 | gotter | gotter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | nsubj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | ccomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 go | compound:prt |
| 23 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pick | punct |
| 25 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | parataxis |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 pick | compound:prt |
| 27 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wedder | compound |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 yo | punct |
| 29 | wedder | wed | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 ter | amod |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 dere | det |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 dere | punct |
| 32 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ter | nsubj |
| 33 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 ter | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 ter | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 ter | det |
| 36 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 sot | compound |
| 37 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ter | compound |
| 38 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ter | compound |
| 39 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 suit | compound |
| 40 | suit | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 pick | conj |
| 41 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 case | compound |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 yo | punct |
| 43 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 suit | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 w'en | punct |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 w'en | det |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 47 w'en | punct |
| 47 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 case | appos |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 git | nsubj |
| 49 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 w'en | appos |
| 50 | home | home | ADV | _ | 49 git | advmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 yo | punct |
| 52 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 yo | nsubj |
| 53 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 yo | aux |
| 54 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 55 yo | cop |
| 55 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 git | conj |
| 56 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 55 yo | punct |
| 57 | wedder | wed | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 59 settin | amod |
| 58 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 59 settin | det |
| 59 | settin | settin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 yo | nmod |
| 60 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 59 settin | punct |
| 61 | out | out | ADV | _ | 65 waitin | advmod |
| 62 | in | in | ADP | _ | 65 waitin | case |
| 63 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 waitin | amod |
| 64 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 waitin | compound |
| 65 | waitin | waitin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 settin | conj |
| 66 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 67 fer | punct |
| 67 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 waitin | conj |
| 68 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 67 fer | nsubj |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | den man | long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Miss w'ich | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go up | infinitive | you | dar | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | pick out | infinitive | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | future | a dere | a wedder sot fer ter | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | suit | present | yo case | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | git | you | home property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | is a | future | dere | yo | a wedder settin and de yard waitin and fer nmod | tree rules | |||
| 9 | fer | you | 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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