Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 70
"'Hop on my toof, little Jack Sparrer, kaze I'm de'f in one year en I can't hear out'n de udder.'
Who acts: Hop, little boy · What happens: be, not hear · To what, where: de'f, one year en, out'n udder
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 (Hop, little boy), 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 | _ | 15 de'f | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hop | punct |
| 3 | Hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 de'f | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 toof | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 toof | nmod:poss |
| 6 | toof | toof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Hop | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Jack | punct |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Jack | amod |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 toof | appos |
| 10 | Sparrer | Sparrer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Jack | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kaze | punct |
| 12 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Hop | conj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 de'f | nsubj |
| 14 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 de'f | cop |
| 15 | de'f | de'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 en | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 en | nummod |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 en | compound |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 de'f | nmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 hear | nsubj |
| 21 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 hear | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 hear | advmod |
| 23 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 en | acl:relcl |
| 24 | out'n | out'n | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 udder | amod |
| 25 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 out'n | flat |
| 26 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hear | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 de'f | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 de'f | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Hop on my toof and kaze | de'f | one year en | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not hear in a quote | can | the little boy = boy | out'n udder | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer udder=Stimulus |
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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