Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 18
All you gotter do is ter holler at de box, an' dar's yo' remarks.
Who acts: you, gotter · What happens: gotter, do, be · To what, where: ter holler, de box
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 (you, gotter), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 gotter | det |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 gotter | nsubj |
| 3 | gotter | gotter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holler | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gotter | acl:relcl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 holler | cop |
| 6 | ter | ter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 holler | amod |
| 7 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 box | case |
| 9 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 box | compound |
| 10 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holler | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 yo | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dar | det |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 dar | punct |
| 14 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 yo | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 dar | case |
| 16 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remarks | compound |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 yo | punct |
| 18 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 holler | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 holler | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gotter | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | all gotter not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | all gotter | ter holler and yo remarks | de box | 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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