Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 6
De Rhynossyhoss, he wuz dar, en de Elephant, he wuz dar, en de Cammils, en de Cows, en plum' down ter de Crawfishes, dey wuz dar.
Who acts: hatter · What happens: dar · To what, where: Cammils
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 (hatter), 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 Rhynossyhoss | compound |
| 2 | Rhynossyhoss | Rhynossyhoss | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 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 Rhynossyhoss | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 en | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rhynossyhoss | appos |
| 9 | de | de | ADP | _ | 10 Elephant | case |
| 10 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 en | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dar | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dar | nsubj |
| 13 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dar | compound |
| 14 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rhynossyhoss | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 en | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dar | conj |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 en | flat:foreign |
| 18 | Cammils | Cammil | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 dar | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 en | punct |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Cammils | appos |
| 21 | de | de | ADP | _ | 22 Cows | case |
| 22 | Cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 en | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 plum | punct |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 plum | compound |
| 25 | plum | plum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rhynossyhoss | appos |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 plum | punct |
| 27 | down | down | ADV | _ | 28 ter | advmod |
| 28 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 plum | conj |
| 29 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Crawfishes | compound |
| 30 | Crawfishes | crawfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 ter | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dar | punct |
| 32 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wuz | compound |
| 33 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dar | compound |
| 34 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Crawfishes | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rhynossyhoss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dar | hatter | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | dar | hatter | Cammils | 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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