Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 54
"How you tell w'en crow gwineter light?
Who acts: you · What happens: tell · To what, where: gwineter light · 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), 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 | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 tell | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crow | compound |
| 6 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gwineter | compound |
| 7 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 light | compound |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | you | gwineter light | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent light=Recipient |
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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