Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 33
Hit takes one er deze yer full-blooded w'ite men fur ter trap my jedgment.
Who acts: Hit, blooded w'ite men · What happens: take, fur, trap · To what, where: one er deze, jedgment
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 (Hit, blooded w'ite men), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 deze | nummod |
| 4 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deze | compound |
| 5 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obj |
| 6 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fur | nmod:poss |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 blooded | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 full | punct |
| 9 | blooded | blooded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 men | amod |
| 10 | w'ite | w'ite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 men | compound |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fur | nsubj |
| 12 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obj |
| 13 | ter | ter | PART | _ | 14 trap | mark |
| 14 | trap | trap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 takes | advcl |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 jedgment | nmod:poss |
| 16 | jedgment | jedgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trap | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Hit | one er deze | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deze=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fur | blooded w'ite men | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | trap | infinitive | Hit not said here | my jedgment | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jedgment=Patient |
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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