Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 5
Ef 'twuz shucks, now, hit mout be diffunt, but I'm a gittin' too ole fer ter be projickin' 'longer shuck collars."
Who acts: twuz, I, longer shuck · What happens: shuck, hit, be, collar · To what, where: mout diffunt, ter projickin
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 (twuz, I, longer shuck), 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 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 twuz | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ef | case |
| 3 | twuz | twuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shucks | nsubj |
| 4 | shucks | shuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hit | punct |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 hit | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hit | punct |
| 8 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 shucks | advcl |
| 9 | mout | mout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 diffunt | compound |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 diffunt | cop |
| 11 | diffunt | diffunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hit | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 projickin | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 projickin | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 projickin | nsubj |
| 15 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 projickin | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 gittin | det |
| 17 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 projickin | nsubj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 ter | punct |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 ole | advmod |
| 20 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ter | amod |
| 21 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ter | compound |
| 22 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 projickin | compound |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 projickin | cop |
| 24 | projickin | projickin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shucks | parataxis |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 projickin | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 projickin | punct |
| 27 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 shuck | amod |
| 28 | shuck | shuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 collars | nsubj |
| 29 | collars | collar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shucks | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shucks | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shucks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shuck | present | Ef's twuz | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hit | infinitive | Ef's twuz not said here | now | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | mout diffunt | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | I | ter projickin | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | collar | present | longer shuck | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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