Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 11
Seem so lak man mus' git need*1 de shade.
Who acts: you, git · What happens: seem, need · To what, where: 1
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, git), 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 | Seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 need | advmod |
| 3 | lak | lak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mus | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mus | compound |
| 5 | mus | mus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 git | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 mus | case |
| 7 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 need | nsubj |
| 8 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Seem | advcl |
| 9 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 10 1 | punct |
| 10 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 need | obj |
| 11 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shade | amod |
| 12 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 1 | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | imperative | you not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | need | present | lak man mus's git | 1 de shade | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 1=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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