Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 139
W'at you speck I come a dancin' fer ef I dunno how?
Who acts: you, I · What happens: speck, come, dunno · To what, where: W'at, fer ef
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | W'at | w'at | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 speck | obj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 speck | nsubj |
| 3 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 speck | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dancin | det |
| 7 | dancin | dancin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ef | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 dancin | case |
| 9 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ef | compound |
| 10 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 dunno | nsubj |
| 12 | dunno | dunno | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ef | acl:relcl |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 dunno | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 speck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speck | present | you | W'at | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present | I | a dancin's fer ef | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dunno | past | I | a dancin's fer ef not said here | 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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