Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 30
"'Well, dog-gone my cats ef I can't gallop 'roun' ole Brer Fox, en I'm gwineter do it.
Who acts: old man, en, roun · What happens: go, not gallop, be, do · To what, where: cats ef, gwineter, en
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 (old man, en, roun), 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 | _ | 7 gone | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
| 3 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 gone | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Well | punct |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 dog | punct |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ef | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ef | compound |
| 10 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 gallop | nsubj |
| 12 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 gallop | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 gallop | advmod |
| 14 | gallop | gallop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gone | parataxis |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 roun | punct |
| 16 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 do | nsubj |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 roun | punct |
| 18 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Fox | amod |
| 19 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Fox | compound |
| 20 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 roun | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 en | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gwineter | nsubj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 gwineter | nsubj |
| 24 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 gwineter | cop |
| 25 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 roun | conj |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gallop | parataxis |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 do | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | participle | my cats ef | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ef=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not gallop in a quote | can | the old man = man | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | en | gwineter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | roun and ole Brer Fox and gwineter | en | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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