Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 15
"Oh, I'm goin' to stick, Uncle Remus.
Who acts: Charley · What happens: be, stick · To what, where: goin, Uncle Remus
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 (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 | _ | 6 goin | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 goin | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 goin | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 goin | cop |
| 6 | goin | goin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 goin | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stick | mark |
| 9 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 goin | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Remus | punct |
| 11 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Remus | compound |
| 12 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stick | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 goin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Charley | goin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stick in a quote | to-infinitive | Uncle Remus | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent remus=Destination |
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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