Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 19
I bin mixin' up wid fokes now gwine on eighty year, en I ain't seed no tattler come ter no good een'.
Who acts: I, wid fokes · What happens: bin up, come · To what, where: mixin, good een
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, wid fokes), 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 bin | nsubj |
| 2 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mixin | mixin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bin | obj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 mixin | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 bin | compound:prt |
| 6 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fokes | amod |
| 7 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 come | nsubj |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 gwine | advmod |
| 9 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fokes | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 11 | eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 year | nummod |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gwine | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 en | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gwine | conj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ai | nsubj |
| 16 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 en | acl:relcl |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 tattler | advmod |
| 18 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tattler | compound |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 tattler | det |
| 20 | tattler | tattler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ai | obl |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bin | parataxis |
| 22 | ter | ter | ADV | _ | 25 een | advmod |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 een | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 een | amod |
| 25 | een | een | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | obl |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 een | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin up | present | I | mixin | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mixin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | wid fokes and gwine on eighty year and en | no good een | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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