Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 7
I'm preparin' fer to shake worldliness.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, shake · To what, where: worldliness
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), 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 | 3 preparin | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 preparin | cop |
| 3 | preparin | preparin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 preparin | punct |
| 5 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 preparin | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 shake | mark |
| 7 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 preparin | advcl |
| 8 | worldliness | worldliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shake | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 preparin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | preparin property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shake | to-infinitive | I not said here | worldliness | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent worldliness=Patient |
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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