Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 5
"I wuz at yo' house las' night, Brer Remus," remarked Brer John Henry, "but I couldn't roust you outer bed."
Who acts: I, dressed negro · What happens: wuz, remark, not roust · To what, where: Brer Remus, you · 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 (I, dressed negro), 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 wuz | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wuz | nsubj |
| 3 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 yo | case |
| 5 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 las | obl |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 yo | punct |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 las | compound |
| 8 | las | la | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 night | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 las | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Remus | punct |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Remus | compound |
| 13 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 remarked | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 remarked | punct |
| 16 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Remus | acl |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 John | compound |
| 18 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 remarked | obl:agent |
| 19 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 John | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wuz | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wuz | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 roust | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 roust | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 roust | aux |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 roust | advmod |
| 26 | roust | roust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wuz | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 roust | obj |
| 28 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bed | amod |
| 29 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 roust | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wuz | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz in a quote | present | I | night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | Brer Remus not said here | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not roust in a quote | could | a dressed negro = negro | 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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