Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 53
Hit rastles wid me monstus, en I gotter rack 'roun' en see if I kin run up agin some Chris'mus leavin's."
Who acts: Hit, I, monstus · What happens: rastle, wi, gotter, see, run up, agin · To what, where: me, rack, Chris'mus leavin
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 (Hit, I, monstus), 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 | Hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rastles | nsubj |
| 2 | rastles | rastle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rastles | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wid | obj |
| 5 | monstus | monstus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 en | punct |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 monstus | conj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 gotter | nsubj |
| 9 | gotter | gotter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 en | acl:relcl |
| 10 | rack | rack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gotter | obj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 roun | punct |
| 12 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rack | appos |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 roun | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 roun | conj |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wid | parataxis |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 run | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 run | nsubj |
| 18 | kin | kin | ADV | _ | 19 run | advmod |
| 19 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | ccomp |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 run | compound:prt |
| 21 | agin | agin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 run | advcl |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 leavin | det |
| 23 | Chris'mus | Chris'mus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 leavin | compound |
| 24 | leavin | leavin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 agin | obj |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 leavin | case |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rastles | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 rastles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rastle | present | Hit | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wi | past | Hit not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gotter | present | I | rack | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | present | monstus and en | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | run up a condition, not said to happen | present | I | kin property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | agin | gerund | I not said here | some Chris'mus leavin | 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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