Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 20
I'm dat hongry dat my stomach is gittin' ready to go in mo'nin."
Who acts: I, stomach · What happens: be, go · To what, where: dat hongry dat, gittin, mo'nin
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 (I, stomach), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 dat | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dat | cop |
| 3 | dat | dat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dat | amod |
| 4 | hongry | hongry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dat | amod |
| 5 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 7 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gittin | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gittin | cop |
| 9 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dat | conj |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 ready | punct |
| 11 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gittin | amod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ready | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 mo'nin | case |
| 15 | mo'nin | mo'nin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dat | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | dat hongry dat and gittin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | my stomach | gittin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | my stomach not said here | mo'nin | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mo'nin=Location |
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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