Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 50
Den she tell um w'at she gwine do.
Who acts: you · What happens: den, tell, do · To what, where: head, w'at she gwine · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | Den | den | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Den | obj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Den | conj |
| 4 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 w'at | compound |
| 5 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gwine | compound |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gwine | compound |
| 7 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Den | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | den | imperative | you not said here | head | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | w'at she gwine | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent gwine=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «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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