Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 56
You may know de way, but better keep yo' eyes on de seven stairs.
Who acts: You · What happens: know, keep · To what, where: way, yo eyes, seven stairs
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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | de | de | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 keep | cc |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 keep | csubj |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | conj |
| 10 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eyes | compound |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 yo | punct |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 keep | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 stairs | case |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 stairs | nsubj |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 stairs | nummod |
| 16 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 keep | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | may | You | de way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | You not said here | yo eyes | seven stairs | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on stair=Location |
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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