Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 6
Dish yer pie," Uncle Remus continued, holding it up and measuring it with an experienced eye, "will gimme strenk fer ter persoo on atter Brer Fox en Brer Rabbit en de udder creeturs w'at dey roped in 'long wid um."
Who acts: you, Uncle, udder creeturs · What happens: dish, continue, hold up, measure, gimme, rope · To what, where: pie, strenk, Rabbit en, long wid um · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Uncle, udder creeturs), 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 | Dish | dish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 pie | nmod:poss |
| 3 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dish | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
| 6 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | nsubj |
| 7 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Uncle | flat |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dish | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 holding | punct |
| 10 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 continued | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 holding | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 holding | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 measuring | cc |
| 14 | measuring | measure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 holding | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 measuring | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 eye | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 eye | det |
| 18 | experienced | experienced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eye | amod |
| 19 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 measuring | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gimme | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 gimme | punct |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 gimme | aux |
| 23 | gimme | gimme | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dish | conj |
| 24 | strenk | strenk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gimme | obj |
| 25 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 persoo | amod |
| 26 | ter | ter | X | _ | 27 persoo | compound |
| 27 | persoo | persoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gimme | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 atter | case |
| 29 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 en | obl |
| 30 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 en | compound |
| 31 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 en | compound |
| 32 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 persoo | nmod |
| 33 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Rabbit | compound |
| 34 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 en | compound |
| 35 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 en | conj |
| 36 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 35 en | flat:foreign |
| 37 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 creeturs | compound |
| 38 | creeturs | creetur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 roped | nsubj |
| 39 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dey | compound |
| 40 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 creeturs | conj |
| 41 | roped | rope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 en | acl:relcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 um | case |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 um | punct |
| 44 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 um | amod |
| 45 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 um | amod |
| 46 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 roped | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dish | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dish | imperative | you not said here | yer's pie | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | continue in a quote | past | Uncle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hold up in a quote | gerund | Uncle not said here | pie | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | measure in a quote | gerund | Uncle not said here | pie | with a experienced eye | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value | |||
| 5 | gimme | future | you not said here | strenk | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | rope | past | udder creeturs and w'at dey | Rabbit en not said here | long wid um | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Patient |
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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