Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 41
En dat w'at you better do, honey, kaze I see Miss Sally's shadder sailin' backerds en forerds 'fo' de winder, en de fus' news you know she'll be spectin' un you."
Who acts: you, I, en · What happens: do, see, know, be · To what, where: En w'at, fus news, spectin · 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 (you, I, en), 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 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 w'at | compound |
| 2 | dat | dat | X | _ | 1 En | flat |
| 3 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 you | xcomp |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 honey | punct |
| 8 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 w'at | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kaze | punct |
| 10 | kaze | kaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sally | compound |
| 14 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sailin | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Sally | case |
| 16 | shadder | shadd | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 sailin | amod |
| 17 | sailin | sailin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 backerds | punct |
| 19 | backerds | backerd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sailin | conj |
| 20 | en | en | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 backerds | nmod |
| 21 | forerds | forerd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 en | appos |
| 22 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 21 forerds | case |
| 23 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 26 winder | case |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 winder | punct |
| 25 | de | de | ADP | _ | 26 winder | case |
| 26 | winder | winder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 forerds | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 en | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 winder | conj |
| 29 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 30 fus | compound |
| 30 | fus | fus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 news | compound |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 fus | punct |
| 32 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 winder | conj |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 know | nsubj |
| 34 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 news | acl:relcl |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 spectin | nsubj |
| 36 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 spectin | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 spectin | cop |
| 38 | spectin | spectin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 know | ccomp |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 spectin | punct |
| 40 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 you | compound |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 spectin | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | you | En w'at and honey not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | see | present | I | En w'at and honey | kaze obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sailin=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | know | present | you | fus news not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | future | en | spectin | 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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