Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 15
We ain't got no great doin's at our house, but I speck de ole 'oman en de chilluns kin sorter scramble roun' en git up sump'n fer ter stay yo' stummick.'
Who acts: We, great doin, I, fer ter · What happens: not get, be, speck, stay · To what, where: house, ole en chilluns, yo stummick
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 (We, great doin, I, fer ter), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | ai | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 got | advmod |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 doin | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 doin | amod |
| 7 | doin | doin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 house | cop |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 speck | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 speck | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 speck | nsubj |
| 15 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | parataxis |
| 16 | de | de | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chilluns | det |
| 17 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 chilluns | amod |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 en | punct |
| 19 | oman | oman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | compound |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chilluns | compound |
| 21 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 en | flat:foreign |
| 22 | chilluns | chillun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 speck | obj |
| 23 | kin | kin | ADP | _ | 26 roun | case |
| 24 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scramble | compound |
| 25 | scramble | scramble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 roun | compound |
| 26 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 speck | obl |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 git | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 git | compound |
| 29 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 roun | appos |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 git | compound:prt |
| 31 | sump'n | sump'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 git | conj |
| 32 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 ter | amod |
| 33 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 stay | nsubj |
| 34 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 sump'n | acl:relcl |
| 35 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stummick | compound |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 yo | punct |
| 37 | stummick | stummick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stay | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | no great doin | our house | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speck | present | I | de ole en chilluns | kin scramble roun | tree rules | |||
| 4 | stay | present | fer ter | yo stummick | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme stummick=Location |
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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