Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 58
You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?
Who acts: You, w'at · What happens: hide, do · To what, where: de fier, wid de smoke
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, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hide | nsubj |
| 2 | k'n | k'n | CCONJ | _ | 3 hide | cc |
| 3 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 fier | compound |
| 5 | fier | fier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hide | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 do | cc |
| 8 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | nsubj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 w'at | obj |
| 10 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 w'at | conj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hide | conj |
| 12 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 smoke | amod |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 smoke | compound |
| 14 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | You | de fier | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fier=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | present | w'at and gwine | wid de smoke | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smoke=Eventuality |
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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