Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 14
But you wanter have one er deze yer ole-time grips, an' you des gotter shet yo' eyes an' swing on like wunner deze yer bull-tarrier dogs."
Who acts: you, yer · What happens: have, yo, grip · To what, where: one er deze
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, yer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 have | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 you | flat |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 deze | nummod |
| 6 | er | e | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 deze | amod |
| 7 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 grips | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ole | punct |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grips | compound |
| 12 | grips | grip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 eyes | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 eyes | det |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 yo | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 yo | nsubj |
| 17 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 yo | nsubj |
| 18 | gotter | gotter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 yo | compound |
| 19 | shet | shet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 yo | compound |
| 20 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eyes | compound |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 yo | punct |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grips | conj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 swing | det |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 swing | punct |
| 25 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eyes | nmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 swing | compound:prt |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 deze | case |
| 28 | wunner | wunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 deze | compound |
| 29 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 swing | nmod |
| 30 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 31 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tarrier | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 bull | punct |
| 33 | tarrier | tarrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dogs | compound |
| 34 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 deze | appos |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | one er deze | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | yo | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | grip | yer | nom grip «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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