Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 36
Lemme off dis time, en I won't never do so no mo'.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: lemme off, not do · To what, where: en, mo
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog. 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), 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 | Lemme | lemme | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Lemme | compound:prt |
| 3 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lemme | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 en | punct |
| 6 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lemme | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 8 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 do | advmod |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 do | advmod |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 en | acl:relcl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 mo | advmod |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 mo | det |
| 14 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 mo | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lemme | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lemme off | imperative | you not said here | en | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not do | future | I | no mo | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality |
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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