Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 9
W'at you want wid me?' en off he put like sump'n wuz atter 'im.
Who acts: you, W'at, nip · What happens: want, wid, put · To what, where: W'at, me
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, W'at, nip), 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 | W'at | w'at | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 want | obj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wid | wid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wid | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 en | punct |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 ? | case |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | parataxis |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 put | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | nsubj |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | advcl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 im | case |
| 13 | sump'n | sump'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wuz | compound |
| 14 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 atter | compound |
| 15 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 im | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 atter | case |
| 17 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | you | W'at | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wid not said to happen | infinitive | W'at not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | past | nip | like wuz atter's im | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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