Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 33
En, fuddermo', I know dat 'tain't proned inter no dogs fer ter ketch de rabbit w'at use in a berryin'-groun'.
Who acts: En, dogs · What happens: know, not prone, use · To what, where: tai, berryin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En, dogs), 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 | En | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fuddermo | punct |
| 3 | fuddermo | fuddermo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 En | conj |
| 4 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 proned | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dat | punct |
| 9 | tai | tai | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 proned | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 proned | advmod |
| 11 | proned | prone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 know | ccomp |
| 12 | inter | int | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 proned | xcomp |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 dogs | det |
| 14 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 use | nsubj |
| 15 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 w'at | amod |
| 16 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ketch | compound |
| 17 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 w'at | compound |
| 18 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rabbit | amod |
| 19 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 w'at | compound |
| 20 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 use | nsubj |
| 21 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 proned | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 berryin | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 berryin | det |
| 24 | berryin | berryin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 use | obl |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 berryin | punct |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 groun | punct |
| 27 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 berryin | appos |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 groun | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | En and fuddermo | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not prone | participle · passive | tai | dat obl:unmarked; int property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | infinitive | no dogs | a berryin | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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