Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 4
Mars John and Miss Sally, dey done bin gone down unto Putmon County fer ter see der kinfolks mighty nigh fo' days, an' you better bleeve I done bin had ter scratch 'roun' mighty lively fer ter make de rashuns run out even.
Who acts: Mars, you, I, bin, mighty lively fer ter, rashuns · What happens: do, go down, see, bleeve, have, make · To what, where: der kinfolks, better bleeve
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 (Mars, you, I, bin), 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 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mars | flat |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Miss | cc |
| 4 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mars | conj |
| 5 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Miss | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dey | punct |
| 7 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gone | nsubj |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bin | amod |
| 9 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gone | nsubj |
| 10 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 gone | compound:prt |
| 12 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 16 ter | case |
| 13 | Putmon | Putmon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 County | compound |
| 14 | County | County | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ter | compound |
| 15 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ter | compound |
| 16 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gone | obl |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 gone | parataxis |
| 18 | der | der | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kinfolks | compound |
| 19 | kinfolks | kinfolk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 days | amod |
| 21 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 24 days | advmod |
| 22 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 24 days | case |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 days | punct |
| 24 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 kinfolks | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bleeve | punct |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bleeve | det |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 bleeve | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 bleeve | nsubj |
| 29 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 bleeve | amod |
| 30 | bleeve | bleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kinfolks | conj |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 done | nsubj |
| 32 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 bleeve | acl:relcl |
| 33 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 had | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 done | ccomp |
| 35 | ter | ter | PART | _ | 38 roun | mark |
| 36 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 roun | compound |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 roun | punct |
| 38 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 make | advcl |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 roun | punct |
| 40 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 ter | amod |
| 41 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 ter | amod |
| 42 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 ter | compound |
| 43 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 make | nsubj |
| 44 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 had | parataxis |
| 45 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 44 make | xcomp |
| 46 | rashuns | rashun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 run | nsubj |
| 47 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 make | conj |
| 48 | out | out | ADP | _ | 47 run | compound:prt |
| 49 | even | even | ADV | _ | 47 run | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | go down | participle | Mars and Miss | unto County fer ter | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | der kinfolks and a better bleeve | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kinfolk=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | bleeve | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | do | past | I | a better bleeve not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | past | bin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | make | present | mighty lively fer ter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 8 | run out | present | rashuns | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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