Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 19
Hit's des like skeerin' up a ghos' w'at you ain't fear'd un."
Who acts: you · What happens: not fear · To what, where: un
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), 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 | Hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 des | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Hit | case |
| 3 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 skeerin | case |
| 5 | skeerin | skeerin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 des | nmod |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 skeerin | punct |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 w'at | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ghos | det |
| 9 | ghos | gho | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 w'at | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 ghos | case |
| 11 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skeerin | nmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 fear | nsubj |
| 13 | ai | ai | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fear | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 fear | advmod |
| 15 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 16 | 'd | 'd | PART | _ | 15 fear | obj |
| 17 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fear | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 des | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 des | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fear | you | un | 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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