Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 5
Dat's all I knows--des wunner dese yer mans w'at you see trollopin 'roun' eve'y day.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: know, see · To what, where: dese w'at
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 (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 | Dat | Dat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 all | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Dat | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 w'at | det |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 knows | nsubj |
| 5 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 all | acl:relcl |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 dese | punct |
| 7 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wunner | compound |
| 8 | wunner | wunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dese | compound |
| 9 | dese | dese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 w'at | compound |
| 10 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 mans | amod |
| 11 | mans | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dese | conj |
| 12 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | trollopin | trollopin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 roun | punct |
| 17 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trollopin | conj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 roun | punct |
| 19 | eve'y | eve'y | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 roun | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | see | present | you | all dese w'at | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trollopin=Stimulus |
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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