Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 1
"FIN' um whar you will en w'en you may," remarked Uncle Remus with emphasis, "good chilluns allers gits tuck keer on.
Who acts: FIN um whar, Uncle Remus, chilluns allers · What happens: en, remark, tuck · To what, where: w'en, keer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FIN um whar, Uncle Remus, chilluns allers), 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 | _ | 2 FIN | punct |
| 2 | FIN | fin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whar | compound |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 FIN | punct |
| 4 | um | um | X | _ | 5 whar | compound |
| 5 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 en | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 en | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 en | aux |
| 8 | en | en | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 en | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 may | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 w'en | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 remarked | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 remarked | punct |
| 14 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 en | conj |
| 15 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Remus | compound |
| 16 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 remarked | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 emphasis | case |
| 18 | emphasis | emphasis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 remarked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 allers | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 chilluns | punct |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 chilluns | amod |
| 22 | chilluns | chillun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 allers | compound |
| 23 | allers | aller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 tuck | nsubj |
| 24 | gits | git | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 tuck | nsubj |
| 25 | tuck | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 en | parataxis |
| 26 | keer | keer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tuck | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADV | _ | 25 tuck | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 en | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | en in a quote | future | FIN um whar | w'en | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | Uncle Remus | with emphasis | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tuck in a quote | present | chilluns allers | keer | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent keer=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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