Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 7
Who dat scatterin' my ingun sets?
Who acts: ingun · What happens: dat, set · To what, where: scatterin
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 (ingun), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 dat | nsubj |
| 2 | dat | dat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | scatterin | scatterin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dat | obj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 sets | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ingun | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ingun | ingun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sets | nsubj |
| 7 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 scatterin | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 dat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dat | present | scatterin | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | set | present | my ingun | scatterin not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient scatterin=Result |
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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