Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 10
I spec I dun grow away from 'membrance."
Who acts: I · What happens: spec, grow
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 spec | nsubj |
| 2 | spec | spec | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | dun | dun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grow | nsubj |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spec | conj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 grow | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 membrance | case |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 membrance | punct |
| 9 | membrance | membrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 away | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spec | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 spec | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spec | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow | present | I | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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