Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 35
I'm gwine down ter Putmon County whar Mars Jeems is--dat's w'at I'm agwine ter do."
Who acts: I, Mars · What happens: gwine down, be · To what, where: w'at
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Mars), 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 | 3 gwine | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gwine | aux |
| 3 | gwine | gwine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 gwine | compound:prt |
| 5 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 8 whar | case |
| 6 | Putmon | Putmon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 County | compound |
| 7 | County | County | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 whar | compound |
| 8 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gwine | obl |
| 9 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 w'at | nsubj |
| 10 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mars | flat |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 w'at | cop |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 w'at | punct |
| 13 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 w'at | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 dat | case |
| 15 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gwine | parataxis |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 17 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | cop |
| 18 | agwine | agwine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ter | amod |
| 19 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 do | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gwine | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gwine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gwine down | present | I | ter County whar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Mars | dat's w'at | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | dat's w'at not said here | do property | 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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