Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 72
Watch out w'en you'er gittin all you want.
Who acts: you · What happens: watch out, want · To what, where: you'er gittin
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 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Watch | compound:prt |
| 3 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 you'er | compound |
| 4 | you'er | you'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gittin | compound |
| 5 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watch | obj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 want | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Watch | advcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch out | imperative | you not said here | you'er gittin | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gittin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want | present | you | all property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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