Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 15

Ef you wanter see yo' own sins, clean up a new groun'.

Who acts: Ef wanter · What happens: see, clean up · To what, where: yo own sins, new groun

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ef wanter), 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	Ef	Ef	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wanter	compound
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Ef	flat
3	wanter	wanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sins	compound
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 yo	punct
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sins	amod
8	sins	sin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 clean	punct
10	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 clean	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 groun	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 groun	amod
14	groun	groun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clean	obj
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 groun	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Ef wanter	yo own sins					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sin=Stimulus
2	clean up	infinitive	Ef wanter not said here	a new groun					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent groun=Patient

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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