Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 22
W'en old man Gabrile toot his ho'n, he ain't gwineter hang no sine out in de winder-panes, an when ole Fadder Jacob lets down dat lather er his'n you'll be mighty ap' fer ter hear de racket.
Who acts: gwineter, ole Fadder Jacob, you, fer ter · What happens: not hang out, let down, be, hear · To what, where: sine, de winder panes, lather er, mighty ap, de racket
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 (gwineter, ole Fadder Jacob, you, fer ter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 toot | nsubj |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 toot | nsubj |
| 4 | Gabrile | Gabrile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 toot | compound |
| 5 | toot | toot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ho'n | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ho'n | ho'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 toot | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ai | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ai | nsubj |
| 10 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 toot | parataxis |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 hang | advmod |
| 12 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hang | nsubj |
| 13 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ai | xcomp |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 sine | det |
| 15 | sine | sine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hang | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 hang | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 panes | case |
| 18 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 panes | amod |
| 19 | winder | winder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 panes | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 winder | punct |
| 21 | panes | pane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hang | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lets | punct |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 lets | det |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 lets | mark |
| 25 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Jacob | amod |
| 26 | Fadder | Fadder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Jacob | compound |
| 27 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 lets | nsubj |
| 28 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ai | conj |
| 29 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 lets | compound:prt |
| 30 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lather | compound |
| 31 | lather | lather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 er | compound |
| 32 | er | er | X | _ | 28 lets | obj |
| 33 | his'n | his'n | CCONJ | _ | 38 ap | cc |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 ap | nsubj |
| 35 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 ap | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 ap | cop |
| 37 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ap | amod |
| 38 | ap | AP | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 er | conj |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 ap | punct |
| 40 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 41 ter | amod |
| 41 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hear | nsubj |
| 42 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 ap | acl:relcl |
| 43 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 racket | amod |
| 44 | racket | racket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hear | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 toot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hang out | infinitive | gwineter | no sine | de winder panes | out property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sine=Theme in pane=Destination | ||
| 2 | let down | present | ole Fadder Jacob | lather er his'n mighty ap | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent er=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | future | you | mighty ap | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hear | infinitive | fer ter | de racket | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer racket=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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