Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 28
Hit's done got so now dat w'en I gotter pone er bread, an' a rasher er bacon, an' nuff grease fer ter make gravy, I ain't keerin' much w'edder fokes sees ghos'es er no."
Who acts: Hit, I, er bread, much w'edder, keerin · What happens: do, get, gotter, make, not be, foke · To what, where: Hit, pone, gravy, keerin, ghos'es
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 (Hit, I, er bread, much w'edder), 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 | Hit | Hit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Hit | case |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Hit | acl |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 gotter | advmod |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 gotter | advmod |
| 7 | dat | dat | ADP | _ | 8 w'en | case |
| 8 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gotter | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 gotter | nsubj |
| 10 | gotter | gotter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | parataxis |
| 11 | pone | pone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gotter | obj |
| 12 | er | e | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 bread | amod |
| 13 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bacon | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bacon | det |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 bacon | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rasher | det |
| 18 | rasher | rasher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bacon | nmod:poss |
| 19 | er | er | PART | _ | 18 rasher | case |
| 20 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bread | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ter | punct |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 ter | det |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 ter | punct |
| 24 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grease | compound |
| 25 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ter | compound |
| 26 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ter | compound |
| 27 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bread | conj |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 gotter | conj |
| 29 | gravy | gravy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 keerin | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 keerin | nsubj |
| 32 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 keerin | cop |
| 33 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 keerin | advmod |
| 34 | keerin | keerin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sees | nsubj |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 keerin | punct |
| 36 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 w'edder | amod |
| 37 | w'edder | w'edder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fokes | nsubj |
| 38 | fokes | foke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 keerin | acl:relcl |
| 39 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 40 | ghos'es | ghos'e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 sees | obj |
| 41 | er | er | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 no. | amod |
| 42 | no. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 39 sees | obj |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | Hit not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | past | Hit | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | gotter | present | I | pone | now | dat w'en | tree rules | ||
| 4 | make | present | er bread and a rasher's bacon and a grease fer ter | gravy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material gravy=Product | ||||
| 5 | not is a | present | I | keerin | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | foke | present | much w'edder | keerin not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | see | present | keerin | ghos'es | 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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