Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 2

In dem days," continued the old man, observing a look of incredulity on the little boy's face, "in dem days creeturs had lots mo' sense dan dey got now; let 'lone dat, dey had sense same like folks.

Who acts: old man, creeturs, dey · What happens: continue, observe, have, get, let · To what, where: look, face, mo sense, dat, sense

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 (old man, creeturs, dey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:357): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	dem	dem	DET	_	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 continued	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 days	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 days	punct
6	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 continued	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 observing	punct
11	observing	observe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 continued	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 look	det
13	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 observing	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 incredulity	case
15	incredulity	incredulity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	nmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	21 face	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boy	amod
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 face	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 boy	case
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 days	case
25	dem	dem	DET	_	26 days	det
26	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	obl
27	creeturs	creetur	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 continued	ccomp
29	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 mo	obl:unmarked
30	mo	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 sense	amod
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 mo	punct
32	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
33	dan	than	SCONJ	_	35 got	mark
34	dey	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 got	nsubj
35	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 mo	advcl
36	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 got	advmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 let	punct
38	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 had	parataxis
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	40 lone	punct
40	lone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 let	xcomp
41	dat	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 let	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 had	punct
43	dey	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 had	nsubj
44	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 had	parataxis
45	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 had	obj
46	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 sense	amod
47	like	like	ADP	_	48 folks	case
48	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 same	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue in a quote	past	the old man			day		vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	observe in a quote	gerund	the old man not said here	a look of incredulity	the little boy's face			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent look=Topic
3	have	past	creeturs	mo sense		day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
4	get	past	dey = they			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	let	infinitive		dat			alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
6	have	past	dey = they	sense				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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