Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 46
Kaze ef dey is, I ain't got no time fer ter be tarryin' 'roun' yer.'
What happens: be, not get · To what, where: Kaze ef dey, ter tarryin
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: 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 | Kaze | Kaze | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dey | compound |
| 2 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dey | compound |
| 3 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dey | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ai | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 ai | nsubj |
| 7 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dey | acl:relcl |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 got | advmod |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ai | ccomp |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 ter | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fer | compound |
| 12 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ter | compound |
| 13 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tarryin | compound |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tarryin | cop |
| 15 | tarryin | tarryin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 tarryin | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 roun | punct |
| 18 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tarryin | conj |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 roun | punct |
| 20 | yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 roun | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dey | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 dey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Kaze ef dey | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not get | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | ter tarryin and roun | 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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