Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 36
Po' fokes better be fixin' up for Chris'mus now w'ile rashuns is cheap.
Who acts: Po · What happens: be · To what, where: better fixin
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 (Po), 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 | Po | po | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cheap | nsubj |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fokes | punct |
| 3 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Po | conj |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 fixin | amod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fixin | cop |
| 6 | fixin | fixin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fokes | obj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fixin | punct |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 fixin | compound |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Chris'mus | case |
| 10 | Chris'mus | Chris'mus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fixin | nmod |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 rashuns | advmod |
| 12 | w'ile | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rashuns | compound |
| 13 | rashuns | rashun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Po | nmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cheap | cop |
| 15 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cheap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | better fixin | for Chris'mus | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Po w'ile rashuns and fokes | cheap 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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