Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 22
I tink I see you no mo', an' I shaky you by de han'.
Who acts: I · What happens: tink, see, shaky · To what, where: you
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 tink | nsubj |
| 2 | tink | tink | 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 | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tink | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 mo | det |
| 7 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 8 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 12 shaky | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shaky | det |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 shaky | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 shaky | nsubj |
| 12 | shaky | shaky | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mo | acl:relcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 shaky | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 han | case |
| 15 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 han | amod |
| 16 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shaky | obl |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 han | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tink | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shaky | present | I | you | by de han | 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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