Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 20
I ain't 'sputin' 'bout it, but I ain't seed um, an' I don't take no chances deze days on dat w'at I don't see, an' dat w'at I sees I got ter 'zamine mighty close.
Who acts: I, chances · What happens: not be, not take, day, not see, see, get · To what, where: seed um, dat w'at, zamine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, chances), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ai | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sputin | advmod |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sputin | punct |
| 5 | sputin | sputin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ai | obl |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sputin | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sputin | punct |
| 8 | bout | bout | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ai | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 um | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 um | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 um | nsubj |
| 13 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 um | cop |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 um | advmod |
| 15 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 um | compound |
| 16 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ai | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 w'at | punct |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 w'at | det |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 take | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 take | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 take | advmod |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 w'at | advcl |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 days | det |
| 25 | chances | chance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 days | nsubj |
| 26 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 days | compound |
| 27 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 take | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 w'at | case |
| 29 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 w'at | compound |
| 30 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 days | nmod |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 see | nsubj |
| 32 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 see | aux |
| 33 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 see | advmod |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 w'at | punct |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 w'at | det |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 w'at | punct |
| 38 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 w'at | compound |
| 39 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 um | appos |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 sees | nsubj |
| 41 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 got | nsubj |
| 43 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 sees | ccomp |
| 44 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 zamine | nmod:poss |
| 45 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 44 ter | case |
| 46 | zamine | zamine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 got | obj |
| 47 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 close | amod |
| 48 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 got | xcomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | I | seed um | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not take | present · do-support | I | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | day | chances | dat w'at | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not see | present · do-support | I | dat w'at not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer w'at=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see | present | I | a dat w'at not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | get | past | I | ter's zamine | close property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer zamine=Stimulus |
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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