Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 16
"Well, if you've killed a man, you'll have some fun, sure enough.
Who acts: you · What happens: kill, have · To what, where: you, fun
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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 13 have | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 killed | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 killed | aux |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 have | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 killed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 killed | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 fun | det |
| 15 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fun | conj |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 17 sure | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer man=Result | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | future | you | some fun | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient |
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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