Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 3
W'en a ole nigger like me is gotter paddle de canoe an' do de fishin' at de same time, an' w'en you bleedzd ter ketch de fish an' dassent turn de paddle loose fer ter bait de hook, den I tell you, Brer John, you er right whar de mink had de goslin'.
Who acts: W'en, de canoe, I, you, de mink · What happens: be, do, bleedz, tell, er, have · To what, where: gotter paddle, de fishin, ter ketch, Brer John, you, right whar · 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 (W'en, de canoe, I, you), 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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 paddle | nsubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 nigger | det |
| 3 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nigger | amod |
| 4 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 W'en | appos |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 nigger | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 paddle | cop |
| 8 | gotter | gott | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 paddle | amod |
| 9 | paddle | paddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 canoe | amod |
| 11 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 paddle | conj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 do | det |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 canoe | acl:relcl |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 fishin | compound |
| 16 | fishin | fishin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obj |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 fishin | punct |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 19 | de | de | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bleedzd | punct |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 w'en | det |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 w'en | punct |
| 25 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bleedzd | nsubj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 bleedzd | nsubj |
| 27 | bleedzd | bleedz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | conj |
| 28 | ter | t | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 ketch | amod |
| 29 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bleedzd | obj |
| 30 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 fish | compound |
| 31 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ketch | conj |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 paddle | det |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 turn | punct |
| 34 | dassent | dassent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 turn | compound |
| 35 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 paddle | compound |
| 36 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 35 turn | flat:foreign |
| 37 | paddle | paddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fish | appos |
| 38 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 39 fer | advmod |
| 39 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 41 bait | amod |
| 40 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bait | compound |
| 41 | bait | bait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 paddle | conj |
| 42 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 43 hook | compound |
| 43 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bait | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 den | punct |
| 45 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bait | conj |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 tell | nsubj |
| 47 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 bait | parataxis |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 tell | iobj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 John | punct |
| 50 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 John | compound |
| 51 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 tell | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 er | punct |
| 53 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 54 er | nsubj |
| 54 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 paddle | conj |
| 55 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 whar | amod |
| 56 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 er | obj |
| 57 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 58 mink | compound |
| 58 | mink | mink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 had | nsubj |
| 59 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 whar | acl:relcl |
| 60 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 61 goslin | compound |
| 61 | goslin | goslin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 had | obj |
| 62 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 61 goslin | punct |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 paddle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | W'en | gotter paddle and de canoe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | de canoe not said here | de fishin | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fishin=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | bleedz | past | a w'en | ter ketch and de fish | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present | I | Brer John | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 5 | er | present | you | right whar | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | past | de mink | de goslin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goslin=Patient |
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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