Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 48
Hit may be wrong er't maybe right, but dat's w'at I years."
Who acts: you, w'at · What happens: hit, be, year · To what, where: wrong er't
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 er't | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 er't | cop |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 er't | amod |
| 5 | er't | er't | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hit | obj |
| 6 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 7 right | advmod |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Hit | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 years | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 years | cc |
| 10 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 w'at | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 dat | case |
| 12 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 years | nsubj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 years | nsubj |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hit | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hit | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | imperative | you not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | may | wrong er't | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | year | dat's w'at | 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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