Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 26
You ain't bin in dar long nuff fer ter go 'roun' takin' up conterbutions.
Who acts: You · What happens: not bin, go up · To what, where: dar, roun takin
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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 bin | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | ai | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bin | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bin | advmod |
| 4 | bin | bin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dar | case |
| 6 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bin | obl |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ter | amod |
| 8 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ter | compound |
| 9 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ter | compound |
| 10 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dar | conj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 bin | parataxis |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 takin | punct |
| 13 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 takin | compound |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 takin | punct |
| 15 | takin | takin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 takin | punct |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 go | compound:prt |
| 18 | conterbutions | conterbution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 go | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bin | You | dar and long nuff fer ter | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in dar=Destination | |||||
| 2 | go up | infinitive | roun takin | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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