Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 38
Well, I'm gwineter smoke you out, ef it takes a mont'.
Who acts: I, gwineter smoke · What happens: be, take · To what, where: gwineter smoke, mont
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, gwineter smoke), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 smoke | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 smoke | nsubj |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 smoke | cop |
| 5 | gwineter | gwinet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 smoke | amod |
| 6 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 takes | nsubj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 out | nsubj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 smoke | compound |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ef | punct |
| 10 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smoke | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 takes | nsubj |
| 12 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mont | det |
| 14 | mont | mont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 takes | obj |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 mont | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | gwineter smoke and ef | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | gwineter smoke and ef | a mont | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mont=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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