Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 36
I'll des put yo' calamus root out yer on dish yer stump.
Who acts: I · What happens: put · To what, where: calamus root, dish
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 3 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 put | dep |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 root | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 yo | case |
| 7 | calamus | calamus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 root | compound |
| 8 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 yer | advmod |
| 10 | yer | y | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 put | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 dish | case |
| 12 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 13 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 stump | nmod:poss |
| 14 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | future | I | yo's calamus root | dish | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent root=Asset stump=Goal |
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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