Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 23
I des natchully hankered an' got hongry atter water, an ev'y time I sing out fer water I got b'ilin' hot sassafac tea.
Who acts: I, b'ilin · What happens: hanker, get, sing out, tea · To what, where: an, hongry atter water, fer water
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 (I, b'ilin), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hankered | nsubj |
| 2 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 hankered | nsubj |
| 3 | natchully | natchully | ADV | _ | 4 hankered | advmod |
| 4 | hankered | hanker | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hankered | obj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 an | acl:relcl |
| 8 | hongry | hongry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 water | amod |
| 9 | atter | att | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 water | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | ev'y | ev'y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | compound |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 water | conj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sing | nsubj |
| 16 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | acl:relcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 sing | compound:prt |
| 18 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 water | amod |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sing | obj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 got | nsubj |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 water | acl:relcl |
| 22 | b'ilin | b'ilin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tea | nsubj |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 b'ilin | punct |
| 24 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tea | amod |
| 25 | sassafac | sassafac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tea | compound |
| 26 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 got | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hankered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hanker | past | I | an | natchully property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | past | hongry atter water and a ev'y time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | sing out speech: express | present | I | fer water | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | past | I | fer water not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | tea | b'ilin | 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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