Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 47
But, bless yo' soul, honey, Brer Fox ain't sa'nter fur, 'fo' Jack Sparrer flipp down on a 'simmon-bush by de side er de road, en holler out:
Who acts: you · What happens: bless · To what, where: yo soul
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 bless | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bless | punct |
| 3 | bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soul | compound |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 yo | punct |
| 6 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bless | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 honey | punct |
| 8 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soul | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ai | punct |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Fox | compound |
| 11 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ai | nsubj |
| 12 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Vrnc Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bless | parataxis |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 fur | advmod |
| 14 | sa'nter | sa'nter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fur | compound |
| 15 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ai | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flipp | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 flipp | punct |
| 18 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 22 flipp | case |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 flipp | punct |
| 20 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 flipp | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Sparrer | Sparrer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Jack | flat |
| 22 | flipp | flipp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ai | obl |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 flipp | advmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 bush | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bush | det |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 bush | punct |
| 27 | simmon | simmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bush | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 simmon | punct |
| 29 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flipp | nmod |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 er | case |
| 31 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 er | amod |
| 32 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 er | compound |
| 33 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bush | nmod |
| 34 | de | de | ADP | _ | 35 road | case |
| 35 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 er | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 holler | punct |
| 37 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 holler | compound |
| 38 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 er | conj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 holler | compound:prt |
| 40 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 bless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | imperative | you not said here | yo soul and honey | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=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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