Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 1
"You'll tromple on dat bark twel hit won't be fitten fer ter fling 'way, let 'lone make hoss-collars out'n," said Uncle Remus, as the little boy came running into his cabin out of the rain.
Who acts: You, lone, Uncle Remus, little boy · What happens: tromple, hit, not fitten, let, make, say · To what, where: dat bark twel, fer ter fling, collars out'n, cabin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, lone, Uncle Remus, little boy), 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 | _ | 4 tromple | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tromple | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tromple | aux |
| 4 | tromple | tromple | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 said | ccomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 twel | case |
| 6 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 twel | compound |
| 7 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 twel | compound |
| 8 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hit | obl |
| 9 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fitten | advcl |
| 10 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fitten | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 fitten | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fitten | aux:pass |
| 13 | fitten | fitten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tromple | advcl |
| 14 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 fling | amod |
| 15 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fling | compound |
| 16 | fling | fling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fitten | obj |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 fling | punct |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fling | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tromple | conj |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 lone | punct |
| 22 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 make | nsubj |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 let | ccomp |
| 24 | hoss | hoss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 collars | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 hoss | punct |
| 26 | collars | collar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 out'n | compound |
| 27 | out'n | out'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tromple | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tromple | punct |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Remus | compound |
| 32 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 said | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 came | punct |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 came | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 boy | det |
| 36 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 boy | amod |
| 37 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 came | nsubj |
| 38 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 said | conj |
| 39 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 came | advcl |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 cabin | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 cabin | nmod:poss |
| 42 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 running | obl |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 46 rain | case |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 rain | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 rain | det |
| 46 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 running | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tromple in a quote | future | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hit in a quote | past | dat bark twel | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not fitten in a quote | future · passive | You not said here | fer ter fling way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | make in a quote | present | lone | collars out'n | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset out'n=Product | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Uncle Remus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | come | past | the little boy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | run | gerund | the little boy not said here | into boy's cabin result; out the rain | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cabin=Result |
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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