Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 22
Uncle Remus asked finally, "kaze ef you is, I'm gwine out yere en butt my head 'gin de do' jam'."
Who acts: Uncle · What happens: ask, be, gwine out, jam · To what, where: kaze ef, yere en butt · 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 (Uncle), 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 | Uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uncle | flat |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 3 asked | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ef | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ef | punct |
| 7 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ef | compound |
| 8 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 ef | goeswith |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ef | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gwine | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 gwine | nsubj |
| 13 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gwine | aux |
| 14 | gwine | gwine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 gwine | compound:prt |
| 16 | yere | yere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 butt | amod |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 butt | compound |
| 18 | butt | butt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gwine | obj |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gin | compound |
| 21 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 20 head | case |
| 22 | gin | gin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gwine | obl |
| 23 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 gin | flat:foreign |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 jam | aux |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 jam | punct |
| 26 | jam | jam | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 gwine | parataxis |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 jam | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 gwine | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 gwine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Uncle | finally property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | kaze ef | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | gwine out in a quote | present | Uncle | yere en butt | head gin obl | tree rules | |||
| 4 | jam in a quote | present · do-support | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
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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