Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 48
You see yo' pa pull his shut off?
Who acts: You, yo pa · What happens: see, pull, shut off · 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 (You, yo pa), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pa | compound |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 yo | punct |
| 5 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pull | nsubj |
| 6 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | ccomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shut | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 pull | xcomp |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 shut | compound:prt |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | pull | infinitive | yo pa | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shut off | participle | yo pa not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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