Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 14
Hit's one er deze yer kinder w'atzisnames w'at sasses back w'en you hollers at it."
Who acts: one er deze · What happens: w'en · To what, where: you, holler
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. the Phonograph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one er deze), 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 | 5 deze | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Hit | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 deze | nummod |
| 4 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deze | compound |
| 5 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 w'en | nsubj |
| 6 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 w'atzisnames | nmod:poss |
| 7 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 w'atzisnames | amod |
| 8 | w'atzisnames | w'atzisname | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 w'at | compound |
| 9 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deze | conj |
| 10 | sasses | sass | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 w'en | aux |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 w'en | advmod |
| 12 | w'en | w'en | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 w'en | obj |
| 14 | hollers | holler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 w'en | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 w'en | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 w'en | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 w'en | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | w'en | present | Hit's one er deze and w'atzisnames w'at | you | holler | 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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