Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 15
"Well, I tell you, Brer John Henry, de col' wuz so col', an' de kiver wuz so light, dat I thunk I'd make a raid on Mars John's shingle pile, an' out I goes an totes in a whole armful.
Who acts: Col, light · What happens: tell, wuz, thunk, make, go · To what, where: you, raid, shingle pile, totes, whole armful · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Col, light), 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 | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 tell | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Brer | punct |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 wuz | compound |
| 9 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Brer | appos |
| 10 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 John | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 col | punct |
| 12 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 col | amod |
| 13 | col | col | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Brer | appos |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 col | punct |
| 15 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 23 wuz | mark |
| 17 | col | col | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wuz | nsubj |
| 18 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 23 wuz | punct |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wuz | det |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 wuz | punct |
| 21 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kiver | compound |
| 22 | kiver | kiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wuz | compound |
| 23 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 24 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 29 thunk | mark |
| 25 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thunk | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dat | punct |
| 27 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 light | conj |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 thunk | nsubj |
| 29 | thunk | thunk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 make | nsubj |
| 31 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 make | aux |
| 32 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 thunk | ccomp |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 raid | det |
| 34 | raid | raid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 make | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 pile | case |
| 36 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 John | compound |
| 37 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 pile | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 John | case |
| 39 | shingle | shingle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pile | compound |
| 40 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 raid | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 goes | punct |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 goes | det |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 goes | punct |
| 44 | out | out | ADV | _ | 46 goes | advmod |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 goes | nsubj |
| 46 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 raid | acl:relcl |
| 47 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 totes | det |
| 48 | totes | tote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 goes | obj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 armful | case |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 armful | det |
| 51 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 armful | amod |
| 52 | armful | armful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 totes | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | Col | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wuz in a quote | col | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | thunk in a quote | present | light and dat | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | would | Col | a raid | Mars John's shingle pile | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raid=Product | |||
| 5 | go in a quote | present | Col | a totes | a whole armful | out property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tote=Theme |
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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