Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 22
Dere wuz two un um, an' dey went long gigglin' an' laffin' like a nes'ful er yaller-hammers.
Who acts: dey · What happens: go · To what, where: long gigglin
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 (dey), 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 | Dere | Dere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 um | nsubj |
| 2 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 um | compound |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 wuz | flat |
| 4 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 um | compound |
| 5 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 went | det |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 um | conj |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gigglin | amod |
| 12 | gigglin | gigglin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 laffin | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 laffin | det |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 laffin | punct |
| 16 | laffin | laffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gigglin | appos |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 laffin | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 hammers | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hammers | det |
| 20 | nes'ful | nes'ful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hammers | amod |
| 21 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hammers | compound |
| 22 | yaller | yaller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hammers | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 yaller | punct |
| 24 | hammers | hammer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 um | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | dey | long gigglin | like a nes'ful er yaller hammers | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gigglin=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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