Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 12
Fokes go 'bout in de day-time an' makes a livin', an' you come 'long w'en dey er res'in' der bones an' picks it up.
Who acts: Fokes, you, res'in der bones · What happens: go, make, come, pick up · To what, where: an, livin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fokes, you, res'in der bones), 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 | Fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 go | nsubj |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 4 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 go | vocative |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 6 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 makes | obl |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 makes | obl |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 an | punct |
| 12 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 livin | det |
| 14 | livin | livin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 makes | obj |
| 15 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 16 an | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 livin | nmod |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 an | conj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 er | punct |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dey | amod |
| 22 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dey | compound |
| 23 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 er | compound |
| 24 | er | er | ADV | Typo=Yes | 19 come | obl |
| 25 | res'in | res'in | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bones | compound |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 res'in | punct |
| 27 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 bones | amod |
| 28 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 er | obj |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 picks | det |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 picks | punct |
| 31 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 bones | acl:relcl |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 picks | obj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 picks | compound:prt |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Fokes | bout vocative | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | an | time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset livin=Product | ||||
| 3 | come | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pick up | present | res'in der bones not said here | livin | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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