Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 24
De scads 'll fetch um."
Who acts: De scads · What happens: fetch · To what, where: um
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 (De scads), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 scads | compound |
| 2 | scads | scad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fetch | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fetch | aux |
| 4 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fetch | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fetch | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fetch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | future | De scads | um | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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