Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 29
You know how fokes duz w'en dey gits whar people's a moanin'."
Who acts: You, fokes, whar people · What happens: know, duz, be · To what, where: w'en dey gits, moanin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, fokes, whar people), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 duz | advmod |
| 4 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 duz | nsubj |
| 5 | duz | duz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | ccomp |
| 6 | w'en | w'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 gits | nummod |
| 7 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gits | compound |
| 8 | gits | git | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 duz | obj |
| 9 | whar | whar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 moanin | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 moanin | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 moanin | det |
| 13 | moanin | moanin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gits | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 moanin | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | duz | present | fokes | w'en dey gits | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | whar people | a moanin | 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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