Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 18
All de vittles what we got we e't 'fo' we started."
Who acts: All, we · What happens: vittle, get, e't, start
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 (All, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 vittles | nsubj |
| 2 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 All | flat:foreign |
| 3 | vittles | vittle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 got | obj |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 vittles | ccomp |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 e't | nsubj |
| 8 | e't | e't | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 e't | punct |
| 10 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 13 started | mark |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 started | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 started | nsubj |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vittles | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 vittles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vittle | present | All | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | past | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | e't | we | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | start | past | we | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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