Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 2
"Dar ain't nuthin'," said the old man, shaking his head pensively, "dat ain't got no change wrote on it.
Who acts: old man, dat ai, change · What happens: say, shake, not get, write · To what, where: head, ai · 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 (old man, dat ai, change), 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 | _ | 3 ai | punct |
| 2 | Dar | Dar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ai | nsubj |
| 3 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 nuthin | advmod |
| 5 | nuthin | nuthin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ai | obj |
| 6 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 3 ai | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ai | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shaking | punct |
| 13 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shaking | obj |
| 16 | pensively | pensively | ADV | _ | 13 shaking | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 ai | punct |
| 19 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ai | compound |
| 20 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 got | nsubj |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 got | advmod |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shaking | conj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 change | det |
| 24 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wrote | nsubj |
| 25 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 got | ccomp |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wrote | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shake | gerund | the old man not said here | man's head | pensively property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 3 | not get in a quote | past | dat ai | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | write in a quote | past | no change | ai | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination |
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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