Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 18
"I 'clar' to goodness," he said, reaching out and taking the little boy tenderly by the hand, "ef you ain't de ve'y spit en image er ole Miss w'en I brung 'er de las' news er de war.
Who acts: man, de, news · What happens: clar, say, reach out, take, not image, brung · To what, where: ef, little boy, er · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, de, news), 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 | _ | 4 clar | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 clar | nsubj |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 clar | punct |
| 4 | clar | clar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 clar | punct |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 goodness | case |
| 7 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clar | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 clar | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 clar | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reaching | punct |
| 13 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 reaching | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 taking | cc |
| 16 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 reaching | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 boy | amod |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taking | obj |
| 20 | tenderly | tenderly | ADV | _ | 16 taking | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 hand | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hand | det |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taking | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ef | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 ef | punct |
| 26 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reaching | obl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 ai | nsubj |
| 28 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 ef | acl:relcl |
| 29 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 image | advmod |
| 30 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 34 image | nsubj |
| 31 | ve'y | ve'y | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 image | amod |
| 32 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 en | compound |
| 33 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 image | compound |
| 34 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ai | ccomp |
| 35 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 ole | advmod |
| 36 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 w'en | amod |
| 37 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 w'en | compound |
| 38 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 image | appos |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 brung | nsubj |
| 40 | brung | brung | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 w'en | acl:relcl |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 er | punct |
| 42 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 40 brung | obj |
| 43 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 42 er | flat:foreign |
| 44 | las | la | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 news | nmod:poss |
| 45 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 44 las | case |
| 46 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 war | nsubj |
| 47 | er | er | X | _ | 49 war | compound |
| 48 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 47 er | flat:foreign |
| 49 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 er | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clar in a quote | man | to goodness | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reach out | gerund | man not said here | ef | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | gerund | man not said here | the little boy | by the hand; tenderly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination | |||
| 5 | not image in a quote | de | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | brung in a quote | past | man | er and er war | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | war in a quote | las's news | tree rules |
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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