Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 27
But don't you git on dem kyars.
Who acts: you · What happens: not do · To what, where: you, dem kyars
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 do | cc |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 do | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 do | obj |
| 5 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 do | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 kyars | case |
| 7 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kyars | compound |
| 8 | kyars | kyar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 do | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | imperative | you not said here | you | dem kyars | git obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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