Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 19
Can't you lend me a dime, Uncle Remus, to buy me a pie?
Who acts: you · What happens: not lend, buy · To what, where: dime, me, pie
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), 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 | Ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lend | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 lend | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 lend | nsubj |
| 4 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lend | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dime | det |
| 7 | dime | dime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lend | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Remus | punct |
| 9 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Remus | compound |
| 10 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dime | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 buy | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 buy | mark |
| 13 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lend | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 buy | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pie | det |
| 16 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buy | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 lend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lend | can | you | a dime | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient dime=Theme | |||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | you not said here | a pie | me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary pie=Theme |
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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