Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 32
You leave dat box right whar she is, an, let de 'oman take wun young un an you take de udder wun, an' den you git in de middle er de big road an' pull out fer de place whar you come fum.
Who acts: You, ter, de oman · What happens: leave, be, let, take, pull out, come · To what, where: dat box, de oman, wun, de udder wun, fum
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, ter, de oman), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 box | compound |
| 4 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leave | obj |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 whar | advmod |
| 6 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leave | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 is | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 leave | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 let | det |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 leave | parataxis |
| 13 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 oman | compound |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 de | punct |
| 15 | oman | oman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 let | obj |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 17 | wun | wun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 un | amod |
| 19 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 un | nmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 take | nsubj |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 an | acl:relcl |
| 23 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wun | compound |
| 24 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wun | compound |
| 25 | wun | wun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 den | punct |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 den | det |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 den | punct |
| 29 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wun | appos |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 den | conj |
| 31 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 you | appos |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 er | case |
| 33 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 er | compound |
| 34 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 er | compound |
| 35 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 git | nmod |
| 36 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 38 road | compound |
| 37 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 road | amod |
| 38 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 er | conj |
| 39 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 fer | det |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 pull | punct |
| 41 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 fer | compound |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 pull | compound:prt |
| 43 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 road | conj |
| 44 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 whar | amod |
| 45 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 whar | compound |
| 46 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fer | appos |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 come | nsubj |
| 48 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 whar | acl:relcl |
| 49 | fum | fum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 come | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | You | dat box | whar obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | present | ter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | de oman | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | de oman not said here | wun | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wun=Theme un=Destination | ||||
| 5 | take | present | you | de udder wun | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wun=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pull out | infinitive | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | come | present | you | fum | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fum=Theme |
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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