Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 36
You better go long an' git yo' kyarpet-sack and skip de town.
Who acts: You, git yo · What happens: go, sack, skip · To what, where: de town
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, git yo), 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 | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 go | advmod |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 sack | advmod |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sack | det |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 yo | punct |
| 7 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 yo | compound |
| 8 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sack | nsubj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 sack | punct |
| 10 | kyarpet | kyarpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sack | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 kyarpet | punct |
| 12 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 skip | cc |
| 14 | skip | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 town | compound |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 skip | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | You | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sack | git yo | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | skip | present | You not said here | de town | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Agent |
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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