Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 66
Twix' de bug en de bee-martin 'tain't hard ter tell w'ich gwineter git kotch.
Who acts: tai · What happens: not tell · To what, where: git kotch · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tai), 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 | Twix | Twix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 en | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Twix | case |
| 3 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bug | compound |
| 4 | bug | bug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 en | compound |
| 5 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 martin | nsubj |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 bee | compound |
| 7 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 martin | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 martin | punct |
| 9 | martin | martin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 martin | punct |
| 11 | tai | tai | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 tell | advmod |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ter | amod |
| 14 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 martin | parataxis |
| 16 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 git | compound |
| 17 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 git | compound |
| 18 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kotch | compound |
| 19 | kotch | kotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 martin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | present | tai | git kotch | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kotch=Recipient |
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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