Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 2
You k'n play yo' pranks on deze yer w'ite fokes, but w'en you come a cuttin' up yo' capers roun me you 'll lan' right in de middle uv er spell er sickness--now you mine w'at I tell you.
Who acts: You, middle uv er, I · What happens: play, come up, lan, spell, tell · To what, where: yo pranks, deze, w'en, er sickness, you w'at, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, middle uv er, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 play | nsubj |
| 2 | k'n | k'n | CCONJ | _ | 3 play | cc |
| 3 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pranks | compound |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 yo | punct |
| 6 | pranks | prank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 play | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 deze | case |
| 8 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 play | obl |
| 9 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 fokes | amod |
| 10 | w'ite | w'ite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fokes | compound |
| 11 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 deze | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 come | cc |
| 14 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 play | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cuttin | det |
| 18 | cuttin | cuttin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obj |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 cuttin | punct |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 come | compound:prt |
| 21 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 capers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 21 yo | case |
| 23 | capers | caper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 come | obl |
| 24 | roun | roun | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 capers | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 roun | obj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 lan | nsubj |
| 27 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 lan | aux |
| 28 | lan | lan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 roun | appos |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 lan | punct |
| 30 | right | right | ADV | _ | 35 er | advmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 er | case |
| 32 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 er | nsubj |
| 33 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 er | amod |
| 34 | uv | ultra-violet | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 35 er | compound |
| 35 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 spell | nsubj |
| 36 | spell | spell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 play | parataxis |
| 37 | er | e | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 sickness | amod |
| 38 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 spell | obj |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 43 w'at | punct |
| 40 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 w'at | advmod |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 w'at | compound |
| 42 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 you | nmod |
| 43 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 play | parataxis |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 tell | nsubj |
| 45 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 tell | iobj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | infinitive | You | yo pranks | deze and yer w'ite fokes | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prank=Theme | |||
| 2 | come up | present | you | w'en | yo's capers obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cuttin=Theme | |||
| 3 | lan | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | spell | present | middle uv er | er sickness | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent sickness=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | present | I | you w'at not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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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