Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 13
Dish yer man mout a had a name, en den ag'in he moutn't.
Who acts: you, man · What happens: dish, have, not mout · To what, where: man, name
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man), 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 | Dish | dish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 man | nmod:poss |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dish | obj |
| 4 | mout | mout | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 had | det |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dish | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ag'in | punct |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 den | compound |
| 11 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ag'in | compound |
| 12 | ag'in | ag'in | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | appos |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 mout | nsubj |
| 14 | mout | mout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 mout | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dish | imperative | you not said here | yer's man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | you not said here | a name | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not mout | man | 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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