Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 10
"Well, ef you done had de speunce un it, I'm mighty glad.
Who acts: you, ef, Charley · What happens: do, have, un, be · To what, where: ef
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ef, Charley), 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 | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 had | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ef | punct |
| 4 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 done | nsubj |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ef | acl:relcl |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 un | dep |
| 9 | speunce | speunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 un | compound |
| 10 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 un | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glad | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 glad | nsubj |
| 14 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 glad | cop |
| 15 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 glad | amod |
| 16 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 had | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | participle | you | ef not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ef=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | ef | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | un in a quote | ef | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Charley | glad 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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