Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 4
Mighty quare goin's on out dar, Brer Remus, sho's you bawn."
Who acts: you · What happens: bawn
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 (you), 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 | Mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goin | amod |
| 2 | quare | quare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goin | compound |
| 3 | goin | goin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 goin | case |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 dar | case |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 dar | case |
| 7 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goin | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Brer | punct |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dar | appos |
| 10 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Brer | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bawn | punct |
| 12 | sho | sho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bawn | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 sho | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 bawn | nsubj |
| 15 | bawn | bawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Brer | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Brer | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bawn | you | 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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