Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 65
Dat w'at I years you gits it straight like I yeard it."
Who acts: I, w'at · What happens: w'at, year · To what, where: dem
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 (I, 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 | Dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 w'at | det |
| 2 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 years | compound |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 w'at | nsubj |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gits | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 gits | nsubj |
| 6 | gits | git | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 yeard | nsubj:outer |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 yeard | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 11 yeard | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 yeard | nsubj |
| 11 | yeard | year | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gits | acl:relcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 yeard | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gits | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 gits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | w'at | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | year | past | w'at | dem | straight property | 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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