Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 36
I speck you'll take dinner wid me dis time, Brer Rabbit.
Who acts: I, you, dinner · What happens: speck, take, wi · To what, where: me
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 (I, you, dinner), 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 | 2 speck | nsubj |
| 2 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 speck | ccomp |
| 6 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wid | nsubj |
| 7 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wid | obj |
| 9 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | compound |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wid | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Rabbit | punct |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Rabbit | compound |
| 13 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 time | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 speck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speck | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | future | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wi | past | dinner | me | time | 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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