Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 19
Ef enny you boys git a invite you come, but ef you don't you better stay 'way.
Who acts: you · What happens: come, not stay · To what, where: invite
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 (you), 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 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 git | nsubj |
| 2 | enny | enny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ef | flat |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 git | nsubj |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 git | compound |
| 5 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 invite | det |
| 7 | invite | invite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 git | appos |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 invite | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ef | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 ef | cc |
| 12 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 git | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 stay | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 stay | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 stay | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 stay | nsubj |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 stay | amod |
| 18 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ef | appos |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 stay | punct |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ef | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 git | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | you | a invite not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location invite=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not stay | present · do-support | you | 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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