Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 16
Dat's de p'int, kase w'en I git ter huntin' 'roun' 'mong my 'membunce atter dish yer Mister W'atyoumaycollum's name, she ain't dar.
Who acts: roun mong · What happens: 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 (roun mong), 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 | Dat | Dat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 p'int | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Dat | case |
| 3 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 p'int | compound |
| 4 | p'int | p'int | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 huntin | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 w'en | punct |
| 6 | kase | kase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 w'en | compound |
| 7 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 p'int | conj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 huntin | nsubj |
| 9 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 huntin | compound |
| 10 | ter | ter | X | _ | 11 huntin | compound |
| 11 | huntin | huntin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 huntin | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 roun | punct |
| 14 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mong | compound |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 roun | punct |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 roun | case |
| 17 | mong | mong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 name | nsubj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dish | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 dish | punct |
| 20 | membunce | membunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 atter | compound |
| 21 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dish | compound |
| 22 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 name | nsubj |
| 23 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 name | amod |
| 24 | Mister | Mister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 name | nmod:poss |
| 25 | W'atyoumaycollum | W'atyoumaycollum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Mister | flat |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Mister | case |
| 27 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 huntin | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ai | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 ai | nsubj |
| 30 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 name | parataxis |
| 31 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 dar | advmod |
| 32 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ai | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 huntin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | roun mong | 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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