Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 14
Dat's me, up an' down, an' I boun' dere's a nigger some'rs on de road dis blessid day dat's got dis put away in his 'membunce."
Who acts: I, dere, nigger, dat · What happens: boun, be, some'r, get, put away · To what, where: nigger, boun, dis, membunce
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dere, nigger, dat), 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 | Dat | Dat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 me | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Dat | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 down | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 down | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 down | det |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 down | punct |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 me | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 boun | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 boun | det |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 boun | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 boun | nsubj |
| 13 | boun | boun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 down | appos |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 nigger | punct |
| 15 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nigger | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 nigger | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 nigger | det |
| 18 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 some'rs | nsubj |
| 19 | some'rs | some'r | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 boun | acl:relcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 21 | de | de | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 22 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dis | compound |
| 23 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 day | compound |
| 24 | blessid | blessid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 some'rs | obl |
| 26 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 got | nsubj |
| 27 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 got | aux |
| 28 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 day | acl:relcl |
| 29 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 got | obj |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 dis | acl |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 put | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 membunce | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 membunce | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 membunce | punct |
| 35 | membunce | membunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 boun | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boun | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | dere | a nigger | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | some'r | present | a nigger | a boun not said here | day | tree rules | |||
| 4 | get | present · passive | dat | dis | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dis=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | put away | participle | dis not said here | dat's membunce | away property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in membunce=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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