Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 14
"Dis make de udder Crawfishes mighty mad, en dey sorter swarmed tergedder en draw'd up a kinder peramble wid some wharfo'es in it, en read her out in de 'sembly.
Who acts: Dis, udder, swarmed tergedder en draw, wharfo'es · What happens: make, crawfish, swarm, ' up, read out · To what, where: de, mighty mad en dey sorter, kinder peramble wid, udder
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dis, udder, swarmed tergedder en draw, wharfo'es), 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 make | punct |
| 2 | Dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Crawfishes | nsubj |
| 6 | Crawfishes | crawfish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | parataxis |
| 7 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sorter | amod |
| 8 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sorter | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mad | punct |
| 10 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sorter | amod |
| 11 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sorter | compound |
| 12 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Crawfishes | obj |
| 13 | swarmed | swarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 draw | amod |
| 14 | tergedder | tergedder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 draw | compound |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 draw | compound |
| 16 | draw | draw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sorter | appos |
| 17 | 'd | ' | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 draw | acl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 'd | compound:prt |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 wid | det |
| 20 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 wid | amod |
| 21 | peramble | peramble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wid | compound |
| 22 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 'd | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 wharfo'es | det |
| 24 | wharfo'es | wharfo'e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 read | nsubj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wharfo'es | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 read | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 read | nsubj |
| 29 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wid | acl:relcl |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 read | obj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 read | compound:prt |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 de | case |
| 33 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 read | obl |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 de | punct |
| 35 | sembly | sembly | ADV | _ | 29 read | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | Dis | de | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset de=Product | ||||
| 2 | crawfish in a quote | present | udder | mighty mad en dey sorter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swarm in a quote | participle | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | ' up in a quote | participle · passive | swarmed tergedder en draw not said here | a kinder peramble wid | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | read out in a quote | past | some wharfo'es in wid | udder | de | sembly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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