Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 15
Hit's bin sorter growin' on me, an' it come ter a head dis mawnin', 'less my name ain't Remus, an' dat's w'at dey bin er callin' me sence I wuz ole er 'nuff fer ter scratch myse'f wid my lef' han'."
Who acts: growin, I, fer ter scratch myse'f, my · What happens: come, wuz, wi, name · To what, where: ole er, lef
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (growin, I, fer ter scratch myse'f, my), 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 | Hit | Hit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 growin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Hit | case |
| 3 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 growin | compound |
| 4 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 growin | compound |
| 5 | growin | growin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 growin | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 growin | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 come | det |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 come | nsubj |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 growin | conj |
| 14 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 18 mawnin | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mawnin | det |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dis | compound |
| 17 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mawnin | compound |
| 18 | mawnin | mawnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 19 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 18 mawnin | dep |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 ai | punct |
| 21 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 ai | advmod |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 name | nmod:poss |
| 23 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ai | nsubj |
| 24 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 mawnin | parataxis |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 Remus | advmod |
| 26 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 ai | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sence | punct |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 sence | det |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 bin | punct |
| 30 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 w'at | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 dat | case |
| 32 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dey | compound |
| 33 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bin | compound |
| 34 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sence | compound |
| 35 | er | er | PUNCT | _ | 36 callin | punct |
| 36 | callin | callin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bin | appos |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 callin | punct |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 bin | iobj |
| 39 | sence | sence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Remus | appos |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 wuz | nsubj |
| 41 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 sence | acl:relcl |
| 42 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 er | amod |
| 43 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 wuz | obj |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 nuff | punct |
| 45 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 er | appos |
| 46 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 49 myse'f | amod |
| 47 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 myse'f | compound |
| 48 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 myse'f | compound |
| 49 | myse'f | myse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 wid | nsubj |
| 50 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 nuff | acl:relcl |
| 51 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 lef | nmod:poss |
| 52 | lef | lef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 wid | obj |
| 53 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 54 han | punct |
| 54 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 lef | appos |
| 55 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 54 han | punct |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 growin | punct |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 growin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | growin | ter a dis mawnin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wuz | present | I | ole er | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wi | past | fer ter scratch myse'f | my lef | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | my | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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