Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 32
Seem like I feel 'im give way w'en she went off."
Who acts: you, I, im · What happens: seem, feel, give, go off · To what, where: way w'en
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, I, im), 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 | Seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 4 feel | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Seem | advcl |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 6 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 give | nsubj |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | conj |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 w'en | compound |
| 9 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 w'en | acl:relcl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 went | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seem | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | imperative | you not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feel | present | I | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | give | present | im | way w'en | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'en=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go off | past | im | way w'en not said here | 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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