Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 29
W'en I goes ter war, I wanter know w'at I'm a doin'.
Who acts: W'en, I · What happens: go, know, be · To what, where: ter war, w'at, doin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'en, 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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ter | ter | X | _ | 5 war | compound |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 8 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | conj |
| 10 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 doin | nsubj |
| 12 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 doin | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 doin | det |
| 14 | doin | doin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | ccomp |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 doin | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | W'en | ter war | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location war=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | present | I | w'at | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer w'at=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | a doin | 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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