Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 25
W'en I wants you I'll sen' fer you,' sezee.
Who acts: W'en, I, you · What happens: want, sen, fer · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'en, I, 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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 W'en | flat |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wants | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sen | nsubj |
| 6 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sen | aux |
| 7 | sen | sen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 fer | punct |
| 9 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sen | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 fer | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sezee | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sezee | punct |
| 13 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fer | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | W'en | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sen not said to happen | future | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fer | 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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