Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 11
I bin knowin' dat jug now gwine on sixty-fi' year, an' de jug w'at's more seetful dan dat jug ain't on de topside er de worrul.
Who acts: I · What happens: bin · To what, where: knowin dat jug
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 bin | nsubj |
| 2 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | knowin | knowin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jug | compound |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 knowin | punct |
| 5 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jug | compound |
| 6 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bin | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 gwine | advmod |
| 8 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bin | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 fi | case |
| 10 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 fi | nummod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sixty | punct |
| 12 | fi | fi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 year | compound |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 fi | punct |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bin | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 w'at | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 w'at | det |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 w'at | punct |
| 18 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 w'at | amod |
| 19 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 w'at | compound |
| 20 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bin | parataxis |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 w'at | case |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 w'at | conj |
| 23 | seetful | seetful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dan | amod |
| 24 | dan | dan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 more | nsubj |
| 25 | dat | dat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ai | amod |
| 26 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ai | compound |
| 27 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dan | nmod |
| 28 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 topside | advmod |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 topside | case |
| 30 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 topside | compound |
| 31 | topside | topside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ai | appos |
| 32 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 topside | appos |
| 33 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 32 er | flat:foreign |
| 34 | worrul | worrul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 er | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin | present | I | knowin dat jug | year | gwine obl | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jug=Theme |
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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