Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 36
Leas'ways, I'm gwineter call on wunner deze yer jestesses.
Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: gwineter call, wunner deze
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), 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 | Leas'ways | leas'ways | ADV | _ | 6 call | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leas'ways | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 call | nsubj |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | cop |
| 5 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | compound |
| 6 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 deze | case |
| 8 | wunner | wunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deze | compound |
| 9 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | nmod |
| 10 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 jestesses | nmod:poss |
| 11 | jestesses | jestess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 deze | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | gwineter call | wunner deze yer's jestesses | leas'ways property | 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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