Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 20
So I des sorter riz up an' retch fer my ole muskit, and den I crope out er de back do', an' w'atter you reckin I seed?"
Who acts: I, sorter riz, you · What happens: crope out, ',, reckin, seed · To what, where: er, w'atter
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 (I, sorter riz, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 riz | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 riz | nsubj |
| 3 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 riz | det |
| 4 | sorter | sorter | X | _ | 5 riz | compound |
| 5 | riz | riz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 ', | nsubj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 fer | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fer | det |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 fer | punct |
| 9 | retch | retch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fer | compound |
| 10 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 riz | flat |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 muskit | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 muskit | amod |
| 13 | muskit | muskit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fer | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 den | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 den | cc |
| 16 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 riz | appos |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 crope | nsubj |
| 18 | crope | crope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 den | acl:relcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 crope | compound:prt |
| 20 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crope | obl |
| 21 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 er | flat:foreign |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 ', | advmod |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 ', | aux |
| 24 | ', | ', | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 w'atter | det |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 w'atter | punct |
| 27 | w'atter | w'atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ', | obj |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 reckin | nsubj |
| 29 | reckin | reckin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 w'atter | acl:relcl |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 seed | nsubj |
| 31 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reckin | obj |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 ', | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 ', | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crope out | present | I | er | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ', | present · do-support | des sorter riz | a w'atter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reckin | present | you | a w'atter not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seed | I | 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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