Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 5
De Lion, he wuz dar, kase he wuz de king, en he hatter be der.
Who acts: Lion, de king · What happens: dar, be · To what, where: kase 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 (Lion, de king), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Lion | compound |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 wuz | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dar | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dar | nsubj |
| 5 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dar | compound |
| 6 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lion | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kase | punct |
| 8 | kase | kase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wuz | compound |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wuz | nsubj |
| 10 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 king | compound |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 der | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 en | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | conj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 der | nsubj |
| 16 | hatter | hatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 der | nsubj |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 der | cop |
| 18 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 wuz | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dar | Lion | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | de king and en | kase wuz not said here | d property | tree rules |
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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