Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 2.a Plantation Serenade, sentence 4
Monday mornin' break er day, W'ite folks got me gwine, But Sat'dy night, w'en de sun goes down, Dat yaller gal's in my mine.
Who acts: Monday mornin, Sat'dy night · What happens: get, go down · To what, where: gwine, me
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 2.a Plantation Serenade. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monday mornin, Sat'dy night), 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 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mornin | compound |
| 2 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | nsubj |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 4 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 er | compound |
| 5 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | compound |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mornin | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 8 | W'ite | w'ite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 folks | amod |
| 9 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 got | obj |
| 12 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 goes | punct |
| 14 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 goes | cc |
| 15 | Sat'dy | Sat'dy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 night | compound |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 goes | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 w'en | punct |
| 18 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 goes | nsubj |
| 19 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 sun | compound |
| 20 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 goes | nsubj |
| 21 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 goes | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Dat | punct |
| 24 | Dat | Dat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 gal | compound |
| 25 | yaller | yaller | X | _ | 26 gal | compound |
| 26 | gal | gal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 goes | obl |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 gal | case |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 mine | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mine | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 goes | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Monday mornin and er day | gwine | me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary gwine=Theme | |||
| 2 | go down | present | Sat'dy night | 's Dat yaller gal; in mine; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in my=Attribute |
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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