Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 27
You er mighty fur ways fum home, an' you wanter be a lookin' out fer yo'se'f.
Who acts: You, mighty fur ways, wanter · What happens: er, fum, wanter, be · To what, where: lookin
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, mighty fur ways, wanter), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 er | nsubj |
| 2 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ways | amod |
| 4 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ways | compound |
| 5 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fum | nsubj |
| 6 | fum | fum | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 er | conj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 fum | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lookin | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wanter | det |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 wanter | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 wanter | nsubj |
| 12 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lookin | nsubj |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lookin | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lookin | det |
| 15 | lookin | lookin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 er | obl |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 lookin | punct |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 yo'se'f | advmod |
| 18 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 yo'se'f | amod |
| 19 | yo'se'f | yo'se'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lookin | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 er | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | er | present | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fum | present | mighty fur ways | home property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wanter | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | a wanter | a lookin and fer yo'se'f | 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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