Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 12
When we git dar, maybe well go on twel we gits ter Massasip."
Who acts: we · What happens: go, git · To what, where: twel
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 dar | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dar | nsubj |
| 3 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dar | compound |
| 4 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 6 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 go | advmod |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 dar | parataxis |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 twel | case |
| 10 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gits | obl |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 gits | nsubj |
| 12 | gits | git | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 go | conj |
| 13 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 14 Massasip | case |
| 14 | Massasip | Massasip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 gits | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dar | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | maybe, well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | git | we | twel | ter Massasip | 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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