Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 30
But up yer whar fokes is gotter scramble 'roun' an' make der own livin', de vittles w'at's kumerlated widout enny sweatin' mos' allers gener'ly b'longs ter some yuther man by rights.
Who acts: whar fokes, gotter scramble, b'longs · What happens: be, make, vittle, kumerlat, ter · To what, where: gotter scramble, der, w'at, allers
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 (whar fokes, gotter scramble, b'longs), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 scramble | cc |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 scramble | advmod |
| 3 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fokes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | whar | whar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fokes | amod |
| 5 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 scramble | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 scramble | cop |
| 7 | gotter | gotter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 scramble | amod |
| 8 | scramble | scramble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 vittles | nsubj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 roun | punct |
| 10 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scramble | appos |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 roun | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 livin | det |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 livin | compound |
| 15 | der | der | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 livin | amod |
| 17 | livin | livin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 de | compound |
| 18 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 17 livin | dep |
| 19 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scramble | conj |
| 20 | vittles | vittle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 vittles | obj |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 w'at | case |
| 23 | kumerlated | kumerlat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 w'at | acl |
| 24 | widout | widout | ADP | _ | 26 sweatin | case |
| 25 | enny | enny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sweatin | compound |
| 26 | sweatin | sweatin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kumerlated | obl |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 allers | punct |
| 28 | mos | mo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 allers | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 28 mos | case |
| 30 | allers | aller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 ter | obl |
| 31 | gener'ly | gener'ly | ADV | _ | 33 ter | advmod |
| 32 | b'longs | b'long | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 ter | nsubj |
| 33 | ter | ter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sweatin | acl:relcl |
| 34 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 man | det |
| 35 | yuther | yuth | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 man | amod |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ter | obj |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 rights | case |
| 38 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 man | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 vittles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | yer's whar fokes | gotter scramble and livin de | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | der | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset der=Product | |||||
| 3 | vittle | present | gotter scramble and livin de | w'at | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kumerlat | participle | w'at not said here | widout enny sweatin | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | ter | present | b'longs | mos's allers | gener'ly property | 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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