Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 24
"'Take yo' toofies en gnyaw it, Take yo' toofies en saw it, Saw it en yoke it, En den you kin broke it.'
Who acts: you, en, yo, En den · What happens: take, gnyaw, see, kin, break · To what, where: yo, dish, En den
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 (you, en, yo, En den), 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 | _ | 3 Take | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
| 3 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Take | obj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
| 6 | toofies | toofy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Take | obj |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gnyaw | nsubj |
| 8 | gnyaw | gnyaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 toofies | acl:relcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gnyaw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
| 11 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 Take | conj |
| 12 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 en | punct |
| 14 | toofies | toofy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 en | compound |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yo | conj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Take | obj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Saw | punct |
| 19 | Saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saw | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 Saw | obj |
| 21 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 yoke | amod |
| 22 | yoke | yoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Saw | obj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 Saw | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 den | punct |
| 25 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 den | compound |
| 26 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 broke | nsubj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 kin | nsubj |
| 28 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 den | acl:relcl |
| 29 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Take | parataxis |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 broke | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | yo | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument yo=Theme toofy=Destination | ||||
| 2 | gnyaw in a quote | past | en | yo | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | past | yo and toofies en | dish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | past | yo and toofies en not said here | dish | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | kin in a quote | present | you | En den not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | break in a quote | past | En den | dish | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
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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