Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 38
I ain't got no time fer ter be settin' yer proppin' yo' eyeleds open."
Who acts: I · What happens: not get, be · To what, where: ter settin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 got | advmod |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 ter | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fer | compound |
| 7 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ter | compound |
| 8 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 settin | compound |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 settin | cop |
| 10 | settin | settin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 settin | punct |
| 12 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 proppin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | proppin | proppin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eyeleds | compound |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 yo | punct |
| 15 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proppin | appos |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 yo | punct |
| 17 | eyeleds | eyeled | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 open | nsubj |
| 18 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | ter settin | 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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