Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 26
Hide me some'rs whar de dogs won't git me.'
Who acts: you, some'rs · What happens: hide, not git · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, some'rs), 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 | Hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Hide | obj |
| 3 | some'rs | some'r | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 git | nsubj |
| 4 | whar | whar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dogs | amod |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 dogs | nmod |
| 6 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 git | nsubj |
| 7 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 git | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 git | advmod |
| 9 | git | git | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hide | parataxis |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 git | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hide | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | imperative | you not said here | me | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not git | future | some'rs | me | 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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