Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 9
Hit hope me up might'ly de udder day w'en I hear Miss Sally layin' down de law 'bout you en dem Favers chillun, yit, lo en behol's, de fus news I knows yer you is han'-in-glove wid um.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: hit, hope up, hear, know, be · To what, where: me, de day w'en, fus news, han
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | Hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hope | advcl |
| 2 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hope | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 hope | compound:prt |
| 5 | might'ly | might'ly | ADV | _ | 9 w'en | advmod |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 w'en | compound |
| 7 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | compound |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 w'en | compound |
| 9 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hear | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 hear | nsubj |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hope | parataxis |
| 12 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sally | compound |
| 13 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 layin | compound |
| 14 | layin | layin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hear | obj |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 law | punct |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 law | advmod |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 law | compound |
| 18 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 layin | appos |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 law | punct |
| 20 | bout | bout | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 hear | obl |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 chillun | compound |
| 23 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Favers | compound |
| 24 | Favers | faver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 chillun | compound |
| 25 | chillun | chillun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hear | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 yit | punct |
| 27 | yit | yit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 chillun | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 behol | punct |
| 29 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 31 behol | discourse |
| 30 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 behol | compound |
| 31 | behol | behol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 chillun | conj |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 behol | case |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 news | punct |
| 34 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 36 news | advmod |
| 35 | fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 news | amod |
| 36 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 knows | obl |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 knows | nsubj |
| 38 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 chillun | parataxis |
| 39 | yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 knows | obj |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 han | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 han | cop |
| 42 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 knows | parataxis |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 han | punct |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 glove | punct |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 glove | case |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 in | punct |
| 47 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 han | conj |
| 48 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 um | amod |
| 49 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 glove | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | infinitive | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hope up | present | me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hear | present | I | de day w'en | bout you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer layin=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | know | present | I | fus news | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer yer=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | you | han and glove and wid um | 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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