Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 25
An', sho' 'nuff, yer he come agin, an' dis time he rub a piece er watermillion rime under my lef' year."
Who acts: yer, sho · What happens: come, rub · To what, where: agin, piece er
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 (yer, sho), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sho | det |
| 2 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 3 sho | punct |
| 3 | sho | sho | NOUN | _ | 6 nuff | nsubj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sho | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 nuff | punct |
| 6 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 8 | yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 nuff | acl:relcl |
| 11 | agin | agin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
| 15 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | compound |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 agin | appos |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rub | nsubj |
| 18 | rub | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | acl:relcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 er | det |
| 20 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 er | compound |
| 21 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rub | obj |
| 22 | watermillion | watermillion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 rime | nummod |
| 23 | rime | rime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rub | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 lef | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lef | nmod:poss |
| 26 | lef | lef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 year | obl |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 lef | punct |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rub | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 nuff | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 nuff | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | yer | agin | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location agin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rub | present | sho | a piece er | watermillion rime obl:unmarked | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent er=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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