Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 16
Hit's proned inter me fum de fus dat I got ter eat, en I knows dat I got fer ter grub for w'at I gits.
Who acts: me, de fus dat, ter, I · What happens: prone, fum, get, eat, know · To what, where: proned inter, en, dat · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (me, de fus dat, ter, I), 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 | Hit | Hit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 inter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Hit | case |
| 3 | proned | prone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 inter | amod |
| 4 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fum | obl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 fum | nsubj |
| 6 | fum | fum | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 dat | compound |
| 8 | fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dat | amod |
| 9 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | nsubj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fum | ccomp |
| 12 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eat | nsubj |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 en | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knows | obl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 knows | nsubj |
| 17 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 eat | parataxis |
| 18 | dat | dat | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 got | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 got | nsubj |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 knows | ccomp |
| 21 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 grub | amod |
| 22 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grub | compound |
| 23 | grub | grub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 got | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 w'at | case |
| 25 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grub | nmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 w'at | conj |
| 27 | gits | git | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 I | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fum | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prone | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | fum | present | me | Hit's proned inter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | past | de fus dat | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | eat | present | ter | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | know | present | I | en | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | get | past | I | dat | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent dat=Beneficiary grub=Theme |
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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