Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 22
She gimme back rashuns er sassafac tea.
Who acts: Nex · What happens: gimme back · To what, where: rashuns
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nex), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gimme | nsubj |
| 2 | gimme | gimme | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 gimme | advmod |
| 4 | rashuns | rashun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gimme | obj |
| 5 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 tea | advmod |
| 6 | sassafac | sassafac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tea | compound |
| 7 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rashuns | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gimme | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gimme back | past | Nex | rashuns sassafac tea | 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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