Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 67
"Hit's 'gin de rules fer you ter be noddin' yer, honey.
Who acts: you · What happens: ter, be · To what, where: noddin
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fer | punct |
| 2 | Hit | Hit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Hit | case |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 gin | punct |
| 5 | gin | gin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rules | compound |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 gin | flat:foreign |
| 7 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fer | compound |
| 8 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 ter | nsubj |
| 10 | ter | ter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 noddin | parataxis |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 noddin | cop |
| 12 | noddin | noddin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fer | conj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 noddin | punct |
| 14 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 noddin | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 honey | punct |
| 16 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fer | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ter in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | infinitive | noddin | 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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