Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 19
You knows dat she ain't got no aigs in her, ner no bacon, ner no grits, ner no termartusses, ner no shellotes, an' dat's 'bout all you duz know.
Who acts: You, Dat · What happens: know, not get, duz · To what, where: dat, dat bout · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, Dat), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 5 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 got | advmod |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 knows | ccomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 aigs | det |
| 9 | aigs | aig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 aigs | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ner | punct |
| 13 | ner | ner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 aigs | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 bacon | det |
| 15 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ner | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ner | punct |
| 17 | ner | ner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 aigs | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 grits | det |
| 19 | grits | grit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 aigs | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ner | punct |
| 21 | ner | ner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grits | conj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 termartusses | det |
| 23 | termartusses | termartuss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ner | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ner | punct |
| 25 | ner | ner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 termartusses | conj |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 shellotes | det |
| 27 | shellotes | shellote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 termartusses | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 bout | punct |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 bout | det |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 dat | punct |
| 31 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bout | compound |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 dat | case |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 dat | punct |
| 34 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shellotes | appos |
| 35 | all | all | ADV | _ | 37 duz | advmod |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 duz | nsubj |
| 37 | duz | duz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 bout | acl:relcl |
| 38 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 duz | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not get | present · passive | Dat | dat | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer aig=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | duz | present | you | a dat bout not said here | all property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | know | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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