Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 7
"Go long, boss! w'at you speck I be doin' sailin' 'roun' ter dese yer cullud picnics?
Who acts: you, gentleman · What happens: go, speck, be · To what, where: boss, Go w'at, doin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, gentleman), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 w'at | compound |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Go | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 boss | punct |
| 5 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 7 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 speck | nmod:desc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 speck | nsubj |
| 9 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 doin | nsubj |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 doin | cop |
| 12 | doin | doin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 speck | ccomp |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 sailin | punct |
| 14 | sailin | sailin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 doin | conj |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 sailin | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 roun | punct |
| 17 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sailin | conj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 roun | punct |
| 19 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 20 dese | case |
| 20 | dese | dese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 roun | nmod |
| 21 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 picnics | amod |
| 22 | cullud | cullud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 picnics | compound |
| 23 | picnics | picnic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 dese | conj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 speck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | boss | long property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speck in a quote | present | you | Go w'at | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | infinitive | a gentleman = gentleman | doin and sailin and roun ter dese and yer cullud picnics | 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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