Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 10
Bless grashus! ef chilluns ain't gittin' so dey knows mo'n ole fokes, en dey'll 'spute longer you en 'spute longer you, ceppin' der ma call um, w'ich I speck 'twon't be long 'fo' she will, en den Ill set yere by de chimbly-cornder en git some peace er mine.
Who acts: you, dey, ole fokes, I, two, en spute · What happens: bless, know, spute, speck, not be, set · To what, where: grashus, en den
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dey, ole fokes, I), 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 | Bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | grashus | grashus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bless | obj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bless | punct |
| 4 | ef | ef | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chilluns | amod |
| 5 | chilluns | chillun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ai | nsubj |
| 6 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bless | parataxis |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 gittin | advmod |
| 8 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ai | obl |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 gittin | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 knows | advmod |
| 11 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knows | nsubj |
| 12 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ai | parataxis |
| 13 | mo'n | mo'n | CCONJ | _ | 21 spute | cc |
| 14 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fokes | amod |
| 15 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 spute | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dey | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dey | compound |
| 18 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spute | nsubj |
| 19 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 spute | aux |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 spute | punct |
| 21 | spute | spute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knows | conj |
| 22 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 spute | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 spute | nsubj |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spute | compound |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 spute | punct |
| 26 | spute | spute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spute | nmod |
| 27 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 you | advmod |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 spute | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ceppin | punct |
| 30 | ceppin | ceppin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spute | conj |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 um | punct |
| 32 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 um | amod |
| 33 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 call | compound |
| 34 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 um | compound |
| 35 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ceppin | appos |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 w'ich | punct |
| 37 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 um | conj |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 speck | nsubj |
| 39 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 um | parataxis |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 long | punct |
| 41 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 long | nsubj |
| 42 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 long | advmod |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 long | cop |
| 44 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 speck | conj |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 long | punct |
| 46 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 49 will | mark |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 49 will | punct |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 will | nsubj |
| 49 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 long | advcl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 den | punct |
| 51 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 den | compound |
| 52 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 set | obl |
| 53 | Ill | ill | ADV | _ | 54 set | advmod |
| 54 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 spute | acl |
| 55 | yere | yere | ADV | _ | 54 set | advmod |
| 56 | by | by | ADP | _ | 62 git | case |
| 57 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 git | amod |
| 58 | chimbly | chimbly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 cornder | compound |
| 59 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 58 chimbly | punct |
| 60 | cornder | cornder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 en | compound |
| 61 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 git | compound |
| 62 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 set | obl |
| 63 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 64 peace | det |
| 64 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 mine | nsubj |
| 65 | er | er | ADV | _ | 66 mine | advmod |
| 66 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 62 git | conj |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | imperative | you not said here | grashus | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grashus=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | present | dey | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | spute | future | ole fokes | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | spute | you | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | speck | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not is | infinitive | two | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | set | past | en spute and ceppin not said here | en den | by de en git; ill, yere property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by git=Destination |
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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