Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 15
"I ain't takin' no chances 'bout vittles.
Who acts: holler'n, takin · What happens: not be, vittle · To what, where: takin
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 (holler'n, takin), 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 | _ | 5 takin | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 takin | nsubj |
| 3 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 takin | cop |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 takin | advmod |
| 5 | takin | takin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vittles | nsubj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 takin | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 chances | det |
| 8 | chances | chance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bout | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 chances | case |
| 10 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vittles | nsubj |
| 11 | vittles | vittle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 vittles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | De ole man's holler'n sho = holler'n | takin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vittle in a quote | present | takin | 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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