Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 3
Hit was tech en go wid um, too, mon, en w'en dey make up der mines w'at hatter be done, 'twant mo'n menshun'd 'fo, hit wuz done.
Who acts: Hit, mon, twant mo'n menshun · What happens: be, make up, do, ', hit · To what, where: der mines, wuz
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 (Hit, mon, twant mo'n menshun), 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 | Hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | cop |
| 3 | tech | tech | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 en | amod |
| 4 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 um | amod |
| 7 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 too | punct |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mon | punct |
| 11 | mon | mon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dey | punct |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dey | compound |
| 14 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dey | compound |
| 15 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mon | conj |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 make | compound:prt |
| 18 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 mines | amod |
| 19 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 done | nsubj |
| 20 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hatter | compound |
| 21 | hatter | hatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 done | nsubj |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 done | aux:pass |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 make | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ' | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 ' | punct |
| 26 | twant | twant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 menshun | amod |
| 27 | mo'n | mo'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 menshun | compound |
| 28 | menshun | menshun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ' | nsubj |
| 29 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 ' | aux |
| 30 | ' | ' | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 make | parataxis |
| 31 | fo | fo | ADV | _ | 30 ' | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hit | punct |
| 33 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 ' | conj |
| 34 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hit | obj |
| 35 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 hit | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hit | go property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make up | present | mon and en w'en dey | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | infinitive · passive | der mines | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | ' | would | twant mo'n menshun | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hit | infinitive | twant mo'n menshun not said here | wuz | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | participle | twant mo'n menshun not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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