Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 9
"W'at kinder racket is dis you er givin' un me now, Brer Ab?"
Who acts: you · What happens: be, er, givin · To what, where: racket dis, Brer Ab, un
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 W'at | punct |
| 2 | W'at | W'at | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 racket | compound |
| 3 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 racket | amod |
| 4 | racket | racket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dis | compound |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dis | cop |
| 6 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 er | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 er | nsubj |
| 8 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | givin | givin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 er | xcomp |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 givin | punct |
| 11 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 givin | obj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 un | goeswith |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 givin | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ab | punct |
| 15 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Ab | compound |
| 16 | Ab | Ab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 er | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 er | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 er | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | racket dis | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | er in a quote | present | you | Brer Ab | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | givin in a quote | gerund | you not said here | un | now | 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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