Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 15
I hear Miss Sally say she's a gwineter stripe his jacket, en den I knowed you bin tellin' on 'im."
Who acts: I, Miss, jacket, you · What happens: hear, say, be, stripe, knowe, bin · To what, where: gwineter, tellin, im · 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 (I, Miss, jacket, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 4 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Miss | flat |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hear | ccomp |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gwineter | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gwineter | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 gwineter | det |
| 9 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | ccomp |
| 10 | stripe | stripe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | ccomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 jacket | nmod:poss |
| 12 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knowed | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 den | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 den | compound |
| 15 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jacket | conj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 knowed | nsubj |
| 17 | knowed | knowe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stripe | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 bin | nsubj |
| 19 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 knowed | ccomp |
| 20 | tellin | tellin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bin | obj |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 tellin | punct |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 im | case |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 im | punct |
| 24 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bin | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hear | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | I | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Miss | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Miss | a gwineter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stripe | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | knowe | past | boy's jacket and en den | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | bin | present | you | tellin | im | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tellin=Theme on im=Destination |
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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