Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 29
Ef you ain't got no money fer ter walk back wid, you better des b'il' yo' nes' right here.
Who acts: Ef, fer ter, b'il · What happens: not get, walk back, ne · To what, where: money
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 (Ef, fer ter, b'il), 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 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 3 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 got | advmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 money | det |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 ter | amod |
| 9 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walk | nsubj |
| 10 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 money | acl:relcl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 walk | advmod |
| 12 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 walk | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 better | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 better | nsubj |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 got | conj |
| 16 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 b'il | det |
| 17 | b'il | b'il | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nes | nsubj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 yo | punct |
| 19 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nes | compound |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 yo | punct |
| 21 | nes | ne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 better | obl |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 nes | punct |
| 23 | right | right | ADV | _ | 24 here | advmod |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 better | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | present | Ef | no money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | walk back | infinitive | fer ter | no money not said here | wid property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme money=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | ne | des b'il | 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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