Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 40
Git me in a row whar dey ain't no ticklin' 'lowed, en I'm your man, sezee.
Who acts: en · What happens: low, be · To what, where: ticklin, man
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 (en), 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 | Git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ai | nsubj |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Git | goeswith |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 row | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 row | det |
| 5 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Git | nmod |
| 6 | whar | whar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ai | amod |
| 7 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ai | compound |
| 8 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 ticklin | advmod |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 ticklin | det |
| 11 | ticklin | ticklin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ai | appos |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 ticklin | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 ticklin | punct |
| 14 | lowed | low | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ticklin | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 en | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | nsubj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 man | nsubj |
| 18 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 man | cop |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 man | nmod:poss |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ai | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sezee | punct |
| 22 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | low | participle | no ticklin not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | en | your man and sezee | 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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