Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 8
"Now you er gittin' on ma'shy groun'," replied Uncle Remus. "
Who acts: you, Uncle Remus · What happens: er, reply · To what, where: gittin, ma'shy groun · 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, Uncle Remus), 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 er | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 er | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 er | nsubj |
| 4 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 er | obj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 er | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 groun | case |
| 8 | ma'shy | ma'shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 groun | amod |
| 9 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obl |
| 10 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 9 groun | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 groun | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Remus | compound |
| 14 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | er in a quote | present | you | gittin | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Uncle Remus | ma'shy groun | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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