Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 26
I got a gol'-mine er my own, one w'at I make myse'f, en I speck we better go back ter mine 'fo' we bodder 'longer yone,' sezee.
Who acts: I, we · What happens: get, make, speck, go back, bodder · To what, where: gol, myse'f, one w'at
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gol | det |
| 4 | gol | gol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 gol | punct |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 own | punct |
| 7 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 own | nsubj |
| 8 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 own | advmod |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 own | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gol | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 w'at | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 w'at | nummod |
| 13 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 speck | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 make | nsubj |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 16 | myse'f | myse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 en | punct |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 w'at | conj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 speck | nsubj |
| 20 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 own | advcl |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 go | nsubj |
| 22 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 go | advmod |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 speck | ccomp |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 26 mine | case |
| 26 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 go | obl |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 28 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 34 yone | case |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 bodder | punct |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 bodder | nsubj |
| 31 | bodder | bodder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 yone | compound |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 bodder | punct |
| 33 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 yone | advmod |
| 34 | yone | yone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sezee | punct |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 sezee | punct |
| 37 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 yone | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | I | a gol | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gol=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | present | I | myse'f | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myse'f=Product | ||||
| 3 | speck | present | I | one w'at and en | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go back | infinitive | we | ter mine; for bodder yone and sezee; well property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bodder | we | 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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