Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 58
"Honey, you mus' git up soon Chris'mus mawnin' en open de do'; kase I'm gwineter bounce in on Marse John en Miss Sally, en holler 'Chris'mus gif'' des like I useter endurin' de farmin' days fo' de war, w'en ole Miss wuz 'live.
Who acts: you, de, git, en holler, I, w'en · What happens: honey, do, be, des, useter, wuz · To what, where: gwineter bounce, John en, gif des · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, de, git, en holler), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Honey | punct |
| 2 | Honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mus | compound |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Honey | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Honey | nsubj |
| 5 | mus | mu | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 git | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 mus | case |
| 7 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bounce | nsubj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 git | compound:prt |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 mawnin | advmod |
| 10 | Chris'mus | Chris'mus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mawnin | compound |
| 11 | mawnin | mawnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 git | conj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 open | punct |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 open | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mawnin | amod |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 open | conj |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 kase | punct |
| 19 | kase | kase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 git | conj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 bounce | nsubj |
| 21 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bounce | cop |
| 22 | gwineter | gwineter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bounce | amod |
| 23 | bounce | bounce | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 en | case |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 en | case |
| 26 | Marse | Marse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 John | compound |
| 27 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 en | compound |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bounce | nmod |
| 29 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 en | appos |
| 30 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Miss | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 holler | punct |
| 32 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 holler | compound |
| 33 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 des | nsubj |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 gif | punct |
| 35 | Chris'mus | Chris'mus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 gif | compound |
| 36 | gif | gif | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 des | compound |
| 37 | '' | '' | PUNCT | _ | 36 gif | punct |
| 38 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bounce | parataxis |
| 39 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 41 useter | mark |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 useter | nsubj |
| 41 | useter | useter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 des | acl:relcl |
| 42 | endurin | endurin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 farmin | compound |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 endurin | punct |
| 44 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 45 farmin | compound |
| 45 | farmin | farmin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 days | compound |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 farmin | punct |
| 47 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 useter | obj |
| 48 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 51 war | case |
| 49 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 51 war | punct |
| 50 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 51 war | compound |
| 51 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 useter | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 wuz | punct |
| 53 | w'en | w'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 56 wuz | nsubj |
| 54 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 wuz | amod |
| 55 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 wuz | compound |
| 56 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 war | appos |
| 57 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 56 wuz | punct |
| 58 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 wuz | acl:relcl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 bounce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honey in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | de | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Honey mus's git and Chris'mus mawnin and kase | gwineter bounce | John en | tree rules | |||
| 4 | des | en holler | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | useter | present | I | gif des not said here | day | for de war | tree rules | ||
| 6 | wuz | w'en | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | live | present | ole Miss wuz not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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