Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 15
"An' you er takin' dis 'oman an' deze chillun out dar whar dey dunno nobody?
Who acts: you · What happens: er out · To what, where: An
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 (you), 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 | _ | 5 er | punct |
| 2 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 er | obl |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 An | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 er | nsubj |
| 5 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | takin | takin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 oman | compound |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 dis | punct |
| 8 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 oman | compound |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 dis | punct |
| 10 | oman | oman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 er | obj |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chillun | det |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 chillun | punct |
| 13 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chillun | compound |
| 14 | chillun | chillun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 er | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 er | compound:prt |
| 16 | dar | dar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dunno | amod |
| 17 | whar | whar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dunno | amod |
| 18 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dunno | compound |
| 19 | dunno | dunno | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 er | obj |
| 20 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 dunno | conj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 er | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | er out in a quote | present | you | An | 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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