Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 3
An' I ain't gwine fer ter put up wid none er yo' sassness nudder--let 'lone flingin' watermillion rimes whar I kin git mixt up wid um.
Who acts: gwine fer ter, lone flingin · What happens: put up, let, kin up · To what, where: none, git mixt
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 (gwine fer ter, lone flingin), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ai | det |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ai | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ai | nsubj |
| 4 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 gwine | advmod |
| 6 | gwine | gwine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ter | amod |
| 7 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ter | compound |
| 8 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ai | obj |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ter | acl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 put | compound:prt |
| 11 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 none | amod |
| 12 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 put | obj |
| 13 | er | er | CCONJ | _ | 14 yo | cc |
| 14 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 none | conj |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 nudder | punct |
| 16 | sassness | sassness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nudder | compound |
| 17 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 yo | appos |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 ai | conj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 kin | punct |
| 21 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 flingin | amod |
| 22 | flingin | flingin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kin | nsubj |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 whar | punct |
| 24 | watermillion | watermillion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rimes | compound |
| 25 | rimes | rime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 whar | compound |
| 26 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flingin | conj |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 kin | nsubj |
| 28 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 let | parataxis |
| 29 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mixt | compound |
| 30 | mixt | mixt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kin | obj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 kin | compound:prt |
| 32 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 um | amod |
| 33 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kin | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put up | participle | gwine fer ter not said here | none | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent none=Goal | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | kin up | present | lone flingin and rimes whar | git mixt | wid um obl | 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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