Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 47
"'I'm a chunkin' up de fier so you won't git col', Brer Wolf.'
Who acts: Tobacco, you · What happens: be, not col · To what, where: chunkin
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 (Tobacco, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 chunkin | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 chunkin | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 chunkin | nsubj |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 chunkin | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chunkin | det |
| 6 | chunkin | chunkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 chunkin | punct |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 chunkin | compound |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 fier | compound |
| 10 | fier | fier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chunkin | conj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 col | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 col | nsubj |
| 13 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 col | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 col | advmod |
| 15 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 col | compound |
| 16 | col | col | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chunkin | conj |
| 17 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 16 col | dep |
| 18 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Wolf | compound |
| 19 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 col | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chunkin | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 chunkin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Tobacco | a chunkin and de fier and git col | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not col in a quote | future | you | 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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