Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 14
Spose'n you drap roun' ter-morrer en take dinner wid me.
Who acts: Spose'n, roun, dinner · What happens: drap, take, wi · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spose'n, roun, dinner), 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 | Spose'n | Spose'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drap | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 drap | nsubj |
| 3 | drap | drap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | nsubj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 en | punct |
| 6 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 en | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 ter | punct |
| 8 | morrer | morrer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 en | compound |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roun | conj |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 drap | ccomp |
| 11 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wid | nsubj |
| 12 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wid | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drap | present | Spose'n | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | present | roun and ter morrer en | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | wi | past | dinner | me | tree rules |
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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