Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 15
Wid one bar'l stave I kin fa'rly lif' de vail er ignunce."
Who acts: I · What happens: kin, vail · To what, where: one bar'l stave, er ignunce
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education. 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 | Wid | Wid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 one | nmod:unmarked |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 stave | nummod |
| 3 | bar'l | bar'l | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stave | compound |
| 4 | stave | stave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kin | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 kin | nsubj |
| 6 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | fa'rly | fa'rly | ADV | _ | 8 lif | advmod |
| 8 | lif | lif | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kin | obj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 lif | punct |
| 10 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 lif | conj |
| 11 | vail | vail | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 kin | conj |
| 12 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ignunce | compound |
| 13 | ignunce | ignunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vail | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kin | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 kin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kin | present | I | one bar'l stave | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vail | infinitive | I not said here | er ignunce | tree rules |
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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