Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 9
Whar you speck you gwineter git yo' dinner, en how you speck you gwineter git 'long?"
Who acts: Whar, you · What happens: speck · To what, where: you
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 (Whar, 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 | Whar | Whar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 speck | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 speck | nsubj |
| 3 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 speck | obj |
| 5 | gwineter | gwinet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 yo | amod |
| 6 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yo | compound |
| 7 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speck | obj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 yo | punct |
| 9 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yo | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yo | conj |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 speck | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 speck | nsubj |
| 14 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 speck | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 speck | obj |
| 16 | gwineter | gwinet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 git | amod |
| 17 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 speck | obj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 long | punct |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 git | amod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 speck | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 speck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speck | present | Whar | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speck | present | you | 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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