Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 3
He look like he gwine fer ter set up a bo'din-house."
Who acts: Heyo, gwine fer ter · What happens: look, set up · To what, where: bo'din house
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 (Heyo, gwine fer ter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 ter | case |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ter | nsubj |
| 5 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ter | compound |
| 6 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ter | compound |
| 7 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 look | obl |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ter | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 11 | bo'din | bo'din | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 bo'din | punct |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Heyo | like gwine fer ter | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | set up | participle | gwine fer ter not said here | a bo'din house | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result |
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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