Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 24
If Brer John Henry know'd de color er dat watermillion, I speck he'd snatch me up 'fo' de confunce.
Who acts: Brer John, I, John · What happens: know, de, speck, snatch up · To what, where: color, me
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 (Brer John, I, John), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 John | compound |
| 3 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 know | nsubj |
| 4 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 John | flat |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 de | advcl |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 de | aux |
| 7 | de | de | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 de | obj |
| 9 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 watermillion | advmod |
| 10 | dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 watermillion | det |
| 11 | watermillion | watermillion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 color | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 speck | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 speck | nsubj |
| 14 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 de | conj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 snatch | nsubj |
| 16 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 snatch | aux |
| 17 | snatch | snatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 speck | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 snatch | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 snatch | compound:prt |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 fo | punct |
| 21 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 24 confunce | case |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 fo | punct |
| 23 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 confunce | compound |
| 24 | confunce | confunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 snatch | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 de | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know a condition, not said to happen | present | Brer John | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | de | would | color that watermillion | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | speck | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | snatch up | would | John | me | for de confunce | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for confunce=Beneficiary |
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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