Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 2.a Plantation Serenade, sentence 5
Fifteen poun' er meat a week, W'isky for ter sell, Oh, how can a young man stay at home, Dem gals dey look so well?
Who acts: young man, Dem · What happens: stay, gal, look · To what, where: home, dey
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 (young man, Dem), 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 | Fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 poun | nummod |
| 2 | poun | poun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stay | discourse |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 poun | punct |
| 4 | er | e | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 meat | amod |
| 5 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 poun | nmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 week | det |
| 7 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meat | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 W'isky | punct |
| 9 | W'isky | W'isky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 meat | appos |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 sell | case |
| 11 | ter | ter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sell | amod |
| 12 | sell | sell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 W'isky | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 poun | punct |
| 14 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 21 stay | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stay | punct |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 stay | advmod |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 stay | aux |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stay | nsubj |
| 21 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 home | case |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stay | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gals | punct |
| 25 | Dem | Dem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 gals | nsubj |
| 26 | gals | gal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 stay | advcl |
| 27 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gals | obj |
| 28 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 gals | xcomp |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 well | advmod |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 look | advmod |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | can | a young man | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 2 | gal | present | Dem | dey | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | Dem not said here | well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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