Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 64
Sleepin' in de fence-cornder don't fetch Chrismus in de kitchen.
Who acts: Sleepin · What happens: not fetch · To what, where: Chrismus, de kitchen
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 (Sleepin), 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 | Sleepin | Sleepin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fetch | nsubj |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sleepin | case |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cornder | case |
| 4 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cornder | amod |
| 5 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cornder | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 fence | punct |
| 7 | cornder | cornder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sleepin | nmod |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fetch | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 fetch | advmod |
| 10 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | Chrismus | Chrismus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fetch | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 kitchen | case |
| 13 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 kitchen | compound |
| 14 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fetch | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fetch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fetch | present · do-support | Sleepin in de fence cornder | Chrismus | de kitchen | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chrismus=Theme |
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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