Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 14
"I done tell you all I knows, chile.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: do, tell, know · To what, where: you, chile · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 done | nsubj |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tell | advcl |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 knows | nsubj |
| 8 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 chile | punct |
| 10 | chile | chile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knows | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | participle | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | I | chile | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer chile=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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