Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 26
"Come yer, son, whar dey ain't no folks an' lemme drap some Jawjy 'intment in dem years er yone.
Who acts: you, folks · What happens: come, not drap · To what, where: intment
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 (you, folks), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yer | yer | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ai | punct |
| 7 | whar | whar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ai | amod |
| 8 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ai | compound |
| 9 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | appos |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 drap | advmod |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 folks | det |
| 12 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 drap | nsubj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lemme | det |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 lemme | punct |
| 15 | lemme | lemme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 folks | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | drap | drap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ai | acl:relcl |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 intment | det |
| 18 | Jawjy | Jawjy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 intment | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 18 Jawjy | case |
| 20 | intment | intment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drap | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 years | case |
| 22 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 years | compound |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 intment | nmod |
| 24 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 yone | advmod |
| 25 | yone | yone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 years | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | imperative | you not said here | son vocative; yer property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not drap in a quote | present | no folks a lemme | Jawjy's intment | in dem years yone | 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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