Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 8
Hit's mighty funny unter me how dese fokes kin go an' prognosticate der eckoes inter one er deze yer i'on boxes, an' dar hit'll stay on twel de man comes long an' tu'ns de handle an' let's de fuss come pilin' out.
Who acts: mighty funny unter, one er deze, dar hit, de man, tu'ns, fuss · What happens: go, prognosticate, box, stay, come, handle · To what, where: der eckoes, twel, an, 's, pilin
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 (mighty funny unter, one er deze, dar hit, de man), 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 unter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Hit | case |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 unter | amod |
| 4 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 unter | amod |
| 5 | unter | unter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | nsubj |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 unter | goeswith |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 dese | advmod |
| 8 | dese | dese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kin | amod |
| 9 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kin | compound |
| 10 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unter | conj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 prognosticate | det |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 prognosticate | punct |
| 14 | prognosticate | prognosticate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | ccomp |
| 15 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 eckoes | amod |
| 16 | eckoes | eckoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 prognosticate | obj |
| 17 | inter | int | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 boxes | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 deze | nummod |
| 19 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 deze | compound |
| 20 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 boxes | nsubj |
| 21 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 boxes | amod |
| 22 | i'on | i'on | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 boxes | compound |
| 23 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 eckoes | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stay | punct |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hit | det |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 hit | punct |
| 27 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hit | compound |
| 28 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stay | nsubj |
| 29 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 stay | aux |
| 30 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 boxes | parataxis |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 twel | case |
| 32 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stay | obl |
| 33 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 34 man | compound |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 comes | nsubj |
| 35 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 twel | acl:relcl |
| 36 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 handle | advmod |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 tu'ns | det |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 tu'ns | punct |
| 39 | tu'ns | tu'n | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 handle | nsubj |
| 40 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 39 tu'ns | conj |
| 41 | handle | handle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 comes | advcl |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 handle | obj |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 let | punct |
| 44 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 42 an | parataxis |
| 45 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 let | obj |
| 46 | de | de | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 fuss | nmod:poss |
| 47 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 come | nsubj |
| 48 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 let | advcl |
| 49 | pilin | pilin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 come | obj |
| 50 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 49 pilin | punct |
| 51 | out | out | ADP | _ | 48 come | compound:prt |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | Hit's mighty funny unter and dese fokes kin | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | prognosticate | infinitive | Hit's mighty funny unter and dese fokes kin not said here | der eckoes | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot eckoe=Topic | ||||
| 3 | box | one er deze | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | stay | future | a dar hit | twel | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on twel=Location | ||||
| 5 | come | present | de man | twel not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location twel=Theme | ||||
| 6 | handle | infinitive | a tu'ns | an | long property | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Theme | |||
| 7 | let | infinitive | 's | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||||
| 8 | come out | present | de's fuss | pilin | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient pilin=Result | ||||
| 9 | fuss | de | nom fuss «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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