Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 18
"'I'm gwine ter larn you how ter talk ter 'spectubble folks ef hit's de las' ack,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. '
Who acts: little boy, gwine ter, spectubble folks · What happens: be, larn, say, hit · To what, where: gwine ter, you, Brer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, gwine ter, spectubble folks), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 larn | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 ter | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ter | nsubj |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ter | cop |
| 5 | gwine | gwine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ter | amod |
| 6 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 larn | nsubj |
| 7 | larn | larn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 larn | obj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 ter | advmod |
| 10 | ter | ter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ter | amod |
| 11 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ter | compound |
| 12 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 larn | conj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 folks | punct |
| 14 | spectubble | spectubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 folks | compound |
| 15 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hit | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hit | compound |
| 17 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 las | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 hit | case |
| 19 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 las | compound |
| 20 | las | la | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ack | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 20 las | case |
| 22 | ack | ack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ter | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sez | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 sez | punct |
| 25 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 larn | conj |
| 26 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 sez | obj |
| 27 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Brer | flat |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sezee | punct |
| 29 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Brer | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 larn | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 larn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the little boy = boy | gwine ter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | larn in a quote | present | gwine ter | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | gwine ter not said here | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | ||||
| 4 | hit in a quote | spectubble folks | nom hit «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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