Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 9
Monday mawnin' he'd git on a spree, en all dat week he'd be on a spree, en de nex' Monday mawnin' he'd take a fresh start.
Who acts: mawnin · What happens: be, take · To what, where: spree, fresh start
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 (mawnin), 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 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mawnin | compound |
| 2 | mawnin | mawnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 'd | nsubj |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 mawnin | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 'd | nsubj |
| 5 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 'd | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 spree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 spree | det |
| 9 | spree | spree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 'd | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spree | conj |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 spree | advmod |
| 13 | dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 week | det |
| 14 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spree | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 spree | nsubj |
| 16 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 spree | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 spree | cop |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 spree | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 spree | det |
| 20 | spree | spree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 'd | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 en | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spree | conj |
| 23 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 nex | compound |
| 24 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mawnin | compound |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 nex | punct |
| 26 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 mawnin | compound |
| 27 | mawnin | mawnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 en | nmod |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 mawnin | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 take | nsubj |
| 30 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 take | aux |
| 31 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 spree | parataxis |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 start | det |
| 33 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 start | amod |
| 34 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 take | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 'd | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | mawnin | a spree and en nex Monday mawnin | week | all property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | take | would | mawnin | a fresh start | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Theme |
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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