Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 16
"'You come ter my house termorrer ef yo' fokes ain't too sick, en I kin show you whar you kin git plenty beef mo' nicer dan dish yer,' sezee.
Who acts: You, Fox, fokes, git · What happens: come, kin, show, mo · To what, where: en, you, whar
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Fox, fokes, git), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 3 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 10 yo | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 yo | nmod:poss |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 termorrer | compound |
| 8 | termorrer | termorrer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ef | compound |
| 9 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 yo | compound |
| 10 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 show | obl |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 fokes | punct |
| 12 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 show | nsubj |
| 13 | ai | ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 sick | nsubj |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 sick | advmod |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 sick | advmod |
| 16 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fokes | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 en | punct |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sick | conj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 kin | nsubj |
| 20 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 en | acl:relcl |
| 21 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | advcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 show | iobj |
| 23 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kin | obl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 kin | nsubj |
| 25 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 show | parataxis |
| 26 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mo | nsubj |
| 27 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mo | compound |
| 28 | beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mo | compound |
| 29 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kin | obj |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 mo | punct |
| 31 | nicer | nice | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 dish | amod |
| 32 | dan | dan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dish | compound |
| 33 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 yer | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 kin | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sezee | punct |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 sezee | punct |
| 37 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 yer | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | You | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kin in a quote | present | Fox | en not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show in a quote | present | fokes | you | ter my ef yo | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 4 | kin in a quote | present | you | whar | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mo in a quote | git | 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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