Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 30
I don't wanter git hemmed up 'mong no wimmen and preachers.
Who acts: I · What happens: not hem up · To what, where: mong
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 hemmed | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hemmed | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hemmed | advmod |
| 4 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 git | compound |
| 5 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hemmed | nsubj |
| 6 | hemmed | hem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 hemmed | compound:prt |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 hemmed | case |
| 9 | mong | mong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hemmed | obj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 wimmen | det |
| 11 | wimmen | wimmen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mong | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 preachers | cc |
| 13 | preachers | preacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wimmen | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hemmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hem up | present · do-support | I | mong and no wimmen and preachers | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mong=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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