Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 45
I'm gwineter fling you in a bresh-heap en burn you up,' sezee.
Who acts: I, heap en · What happens: be, burn up · To what, where: gwineter fling, you
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, heap en), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fling | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fling | cop |
| 3 | gwineter | gwinet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 fling | amod |
| 4 | fling | fling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 burn | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fling | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 en | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 en | det |
| 8 | bresh | bresh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heap | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 bresh | punct |
| 10 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 en | compound |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 burn | nsubj |
| 12 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 burn | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 burn | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sezee | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 sezee | punct |
| 17 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 burn | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 burn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | gwineter fling | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn up | present | a heap en | you | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=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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