Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 41
W'en coon take water he fixin' fer ter fight.
Who acts: W'en coon, coon · What happens: take, fixin
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 (W'en coon, coon), 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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 coon | compound |
| 2 | coon | coon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fixin | compound |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fixin | nsubj |
| 6 | fixin | fixin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fixin | punct |
| 8 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 fight | amod |
| 9 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fight | compound |
| 10 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fixin | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | W'en coon | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fixin | coon | 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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