Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 11
Ef you got 'lijjun, you better hol' on to it 'twel de las' day in de mornin'.
Who acts: Ef, you · What happens: get, hol · To what, where: lijjun, hol
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 (Ef, 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 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 lijjun | punct |
| 5 | lijjun | lijjun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hol | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 hol | nsubj |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 hol | amod |
| 9 | hol | hol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 hol | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | obl |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 twel | punct |
| 15 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 las | compound |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 twel | flat:foreign |
| 17 | las | la | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 day | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 17 las | case |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 mornin | case |
| 21 | de | de | PUNCT | _ | 22 mornin | punct |
| 22 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 mornin | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Ef | lijjun | hol | day | in mornin | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lijjun=Theme on it=Source | |
| 2 | hol | you | 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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