Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 8
Ef you bleedzd ter know mo' dan w'at I duz, den you'll hatter hunt up some er deze yer niggers w'at's sprung up sence I commence fer ter shed my ha'r."
Who acts: you, Ef ter, I, mo dan w'at, fer ter · What happens: bleedz, know, duz, hunt up, spring up, commence · To what, where: Ef, mo dan w'at, er, w'at sprung sence, ha'r · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Ef ter, I, mo dan w'at), 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 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ter | compound |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bleedzd | nsubj |
| 3 | bleedzd | bleedz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ef | acl:relcl |
| 4 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 w'at | compound |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 mo | punct |
| 8 | dan | dan | X | _ | 9 w'at | compound |
| 9 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hunt | nsubj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 duz | nsubj |
| 11 | duz | duz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 den | punct |
| 13 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 w'at | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 hunt | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hunt | aux |
| 16 | hatter | hatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hunt | nsubj |
| 17 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 hunt | compound:prt |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 er | nsubj |
| 20 | er | er | X | _ | 17 hunt | obj |
| 21 | deze | deze | X | _ | 20 er | goeswith |
| 22 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 niggers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | niggers | nigger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 w'at | compound |
| 24 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sence | compound |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 w'at | case |
| 26 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 sence | amod |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 sprung | compound:prt |
| 28 | sence | sence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 er | flat |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 commence | nsubj |
| 30 | commence | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 sence | acl:relcl |
| 31 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 ter | amod |
| 32 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 shed | nsubj |
| 33 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 commence | ccomp |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 ha'r | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ha'r | ha'r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shed | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bleedz | past | you | Ef not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | Ef ter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | duz | present | I | mo dan w'at and den not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hunt up | future | mo dan w'at and den | er | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent er=Theme | ||||
| 5 | spring up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | commence | present | I | w'at sprung sence not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | shed | past | fer ter | my ha'r | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ha'r=Source |
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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