Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 22
"'Heyo, Brer Remus, ain't it gittin' late for watermillions?'
Who acts: ai · What happens: not gittin
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 (ai), 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 | _ | 3 Heyo | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Heyo | punct |
| 3 | Heyo | Heyo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Remus | punct |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Remus | compound |
| 6 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Heyo | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gittin | punct |
| 8 | ai | ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 gittin | nsubj |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 gittin | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gittin | nsubj |
| 11 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Heyo | appos |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 gittin | punct |
| 13 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 gittin | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 watermillions | case |
| 15 | watermillions | watermillion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 late | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 Heyo | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Heyo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not gittin in a quote | ai | late property | 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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