Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 38
Dey begs my terbacker, en borrys my tools, en steals my vittles, en hit's done come ter dat pass dat I gotter pack up en go.
Who acts: Dey, en, dat, I · What happens: beg, steal, do, come, pass, gotter · To what, where: terbacker, vittles, en hit, dat, en
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 (Dey, en, dat, 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 | Dey | Dey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 begs | nsubj |
| 2 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 terbacker | nmod:poss |
| 4 | terbacker | terbacker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 begs | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 borrys | punct |
| 6 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 borrys | compound |
| 7 | borrys | borry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 terbacker | conj |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tools | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 borrys | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 steals | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 steals | nsubj |
| 12 | steals | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 begs | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 vittles | nmod:poss |
| 14 | vittles | vittle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 steals | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 done | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hit | compound |
| 17 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 done | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 steals | conj |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 done | obj |
| 21 | ter | ter | ADV | _ | 23 pass | advmod |
| 22 | dat | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 pass | nsubj |
| 23 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | advcl |
| 24 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pass | obj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 gotter | nsubj |
| 26 | gotter | gotter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 pass | parataxis |
| 27 | pack | pack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 gotter | xcomp |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 pack | compound:prt |
| 29 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pack | obj |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 pack | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | Dey | my terbacker and en borrys | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent terbacker=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | steal | present | en | my vittles | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vittle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | present · passive | en hit | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | pass | present | dat | dat | ter property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dat=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | gotter | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | pack up | infinitive | I not said here | en | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme en=Destination | ||||
| 8 | go | infinitive | I not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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