Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 33
Ef dey wuz enny ark in dish yer w'at de Crawfishes brung on, I ain't heern tell un it, en w'en dey ain't no arks 'roun', I ain't got no time fer ter make um en put um in dar.
Who acts: wuz enny ark, en, I, dey ai, um en · What happens: crawfish on, tell, ai, not get, make, put · To what, where: brung, un, roun, time fer ter, um en, um · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wuz enny ark, en, I, dey ai), 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 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | compound |
| 2 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wuz | compound |
| 3 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ark | compound |
| 4 | enny | enny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ark | compound |
| 5 | ark | ark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Crawfishes | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 dish | case |
| 7 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ark | nmod |
| 8 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 de | amod |
| 9 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 de | compound |
| 10 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dish | conj |
| 11 | Crawfishes | crawfish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | brung | brung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Crawfishes | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Crawfishes | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ai | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ai | nsubj |
| 16 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Crawfishes | parataxis |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 heern | advmod |
| 18 | heern | heern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ai | xcomp |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 heern | xcomp |
| 20 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | obj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tell | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ai | punct |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ai | nsubj |
| 24 | w'en | w'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 en | flat |
| 25 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ai | compound |
| 26 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 make | nsubj |
| 27 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 roun | advmod |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 arks | det |
| 29 | arks | ark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 roun | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 29 arks | case |
| 31 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ai | nmod |
| 32 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 31 roun | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 got | nsubj |
| 34 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 got | aux |
| 35 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 got | advmod |
| 36 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 ai | acl:relcl |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 ter | det |
| 38 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ter | compound |
| 39 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ter | compound |
| 40 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 got | obj |
| 41 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 ai | parataxis |
| 42 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 en | compound |
| 43 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 make | obj |
| 44 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 en | acl |
| 45 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 put | obj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 dar | case |
| 47 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 put | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Crawfishes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawfish on | present | wuz enny ark in dish and yer w'at de | brung | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | wuz enny ark in dish and yer w'at de not said here | un | un | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent un=Recipient it=Topic | |||
| 3 | ai | en | no arks's roun | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not get | present | I | no time fer ter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ter=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | make | present | dey ai | um en | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset en=Product | ||||
| 6 | put | participle | um en not said here | um | dar | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent um=Theme in dar=Destination |
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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