Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 1. a Plantation Chant, sentence 2
You ax me ter run home, Little childun-- Run home, dat sun done roll-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer.
Who acts: You, ter, I · What happens: ax, run, do, not wanter, stay · To what, where: me, Little childun, yer
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 1. a Plantation Chant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, ter, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 ax | nsubj |
| 2 | ax | ax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ax | obj |
| 4 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 run | nsubj |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ax | conj |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 childun | punct |
| 8 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 childun | amod |
| 9 | childun | childun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 run | obl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 Run | punct |
| 11 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 ax | parataxis |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 Run | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 roll | punct |
| 14 | dat | dat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sun | amod |
| 15 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 roll | compound |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 roll | amod |
| 17 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Run | parataxis |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 wanter | punct |
| 19 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 wanter | det |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 wanter | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 wanter | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 wanter | aux |
| 23 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 wanter | advmod |
| 24 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 roll | conj |
| 25 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 Run | conj |
| 26 | yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 stay | obj |
| 27 | no | no | ADV | _ | 28 longer | advmod |
| 28 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 stay | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ax | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ax | present | You | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | present | ter | Little childun | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | run | infinitive | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not wanter | present · do-support | I | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | stay | infinitive | yer | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme yer=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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