Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 27
Wait ontwell you gits sorter seasoned like, an' den I'll hunt 'roun' in my cloze an' see ef I can't run out a thrip er two fer you.
Who acts: you, I, see ef · What happens: wait, season, hunt, see, not run out · To what, where: you, gits sorter, roun, er fer, cloze
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, I, see ef), 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | ontwell | ontwell | ADV | _ | 1 Wait | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Wait | obj |
| 4 | gits | git | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sorter | compound |
| 5 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 6 | seasoned | season | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sorter | acl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 seasoned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 den | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 den | det |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 den | punct |
| 11 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sorter | conj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 hunt | nsubj |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hunt | aux |
| 14 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 roun | punct |
| 16 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hunt | obj |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 roun | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cloze | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cloze | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cloze | cloze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 run | obl |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 ef | det |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ef | compound |
| 24 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 run | nsubj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 run | nsubj |
| 26 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 run | aux |
| 27 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 run | advmod |
| 28 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hunt | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 run | compound:prt |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fer | det |
| 31 | thrip | thrip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 er | compound |
| 32 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fer | compound |
| 33 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 er | flat |
| 34 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 run | obj |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 run | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | you | gits sorter and a den obl; ontwell property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | season | participle | gits sorter and a den not said here | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hunt | future | I | roun | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roun=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | not run out | can | a see ef | a er fer | my cloze | you obl:unmarked | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fer=Theme in cloze=Trajectory |
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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